(x-select-utf8-or-ctext): Improve the strategy.

diff --git a/lisp/term/x-win.el b/lisp/term/x-win.el
index d9dc41cdcb86fe06fd16d77eba40d9a9c158fd97..e48d97d6d1bc47940008f09e8fd014b2e023bdd0 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/term/x-win.el
+++ b/lisp/term/x-win.el
@@ -2198,11 +2198,12 @@ order until succeed.")
 ;;   (1) If their lengthes are different, select the longer one.  This
 ;;   is because an X client may just cut off unsupported characters.
 ;;
-;;   (2) Otherwise, if the Nth character of CTEXT is an ASCII
-;;   character that is different from the Nth character of UTF8,
-;;   select UTF8.  This is because an X client may replace unsupported
-;;   characters with some ASCII character (typically ` ' or `?') in
-;;   CTEXT.
+;;   (2) Otherwise, if they are different at Nth character, and that
+;;   of UTF8 is a Latin character and that of CTEXT belongs to a CJK
+;;   character set, select UTF8.  Also select UTF8 if the Nth
+;;   character of UTF8 is non-ASCII where as that of CTEXT is ASCII.
+;;   This is because an X client may replace unsupported characters
+;;   with some ASCII character (typically ` ' or `?') in CTEXT.
 ;;
 ;;   (3) Otherwise, select CTEXT.  This is because legacy charsets are
 ;;   better for the current Emacs, especially when the selection owner
@@ -2217,10 +2218,16 @@ order until succeed.")
     (if (/= len-utf8 len-ctext)
        (if (> len-utf8 len-ctext) utf8 ctext)
       (let ((result (compare-strings utf8 0 len-utf8 ctext 0 len-ctext)))
-       (if (or (eq result t)
-               (>= (aref ctext (1- (abs result))) 128))
+       (if (eq result t)
            ctext
-         utf8)))))
+         (let ((utf8-char (aref utf8 (1- (abs result))))
+               (ctext-char (aref ctext (1- (abs result)))))
+           (if (or (and (aref (char-category-set utf8-char) ?l)
+                        (aref (char-category-set ctext-char) ?C))
+                   (and (>= utf8-char 128)
+                        (< ctext-char  128)))
+               utf8
+             ctext)))))))
 
 ;; Get a selection value of type TYPE by calling x-get-selection with
 ;; an appropiate DATA-TYPE argument decidd by `x-select-request-type'.