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Re: I've lost cut and paste - any ideas why?
Hi,
> If your environment on the other end is a UTF-8 locale, then some of the
> selections will use a UTF-8 string. I don't know offhand if the Cygwin/X
> server supports that, but the clients don't since Cygwin doesn't support
> UTF-8 locales.
If linux side program supports CTEXT or UTF_STRING, you can use any locale.
(And xterm, emacs, mozilla etc supports CTEXT)
If you use programs that use only XA_STRING in UTF-8 locale, maybe copy and
pasted multibyte text will broken. But gtk and qt supports CTEXT, so a few
program have problem.
zakki
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