(let ((data (gui-backend-get-selection (or type 'PRIMARY)
(or data-type 'STRING))))
(when (and (stringp data)
- (setq data-type (get-text-property 0 'foreign-selection data)))
+ ;; If this text property is set, then the data needs to
+ ;; be decoded -- otherwise it has already been decoded
+ ;; by the lower level functions.
+ (get-text-property 0 'foreign-selection data))
(let ((coding (or next-selection-coding-system
selection-coding-system
(pcase data-type
('UTF8_STRING 'utf-8)
('COMPOUND_TEXT 'compound-text-with-extensions)
('C_STRING nil)
- ('STRING 'iso-8859-1)
- (_ (error "Unknown selection data type: %S"
- type))))))
- (setq data (if coding (decode-coding-string data coding)
- ;; This is for C_STRING case.
+ ('STRING 'iso-8859-1)))))
+ (setq data
+ (cond (coding (decode-coding-string data coding))
;; We want to convert each non-ASCII byte to the
;; corresponding eight-bit character, which has
;; a codepoint >= #x3FFF00.
- (string-to-multibyte data))))
+ ((eq data-type 'C_STRING)
+ (string-to-multibyte data))
+ ;; Guess at the charset for types like text/html
+ ;; -- it can be anything, and different
+ ;; applications use different encodings.
+ ((string-match-p "\\`text/" (symbol-name data-type))
+ (decode-coding-string
+ data (car (detect-coding-string data))))
+ ;; Do nothing.
+ (t data))))
(setq next-selection-coding-system nil)
(put-text-property 0 (length data) 'foreign-selection data-type data))
data))