On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 01:29:03PM +0100, Derek Fawcus wrote:
>That sounds like a bug in the apple stuff.  AFAICR "STRING" encoding
>means 8 bit latin1 (8859-1) characters.  So unless the apple code is
>complaining about bytes for which there is no 8859-1 character,  I'm
>not sure what's happening.

The behavior is undefined if a STRING is not in the 'Host Portable 
Character Set', but it's not the X server which causes the problem, it's 
the owner of the selection which converts it to a STRING from UTF-8. I'd 
guess that most apps use iconv (ick) for the conversion. Some apps give 
you a '?', some give \xXXXX, \uXXXX, or the like.

Incidentally, snarfer is still broken in this manner.

-- 
Kris Maglione

If at first you don't succeed, try something else.