diff -r 5bd785ede354 gui-x11/x11.c
--- a/gui-x11/x11.c	Tue Feb 23 01:12:28 2016 +0100
+++ b/gui-x11/x11.c	Tue Feb 23 15:54:42 2016 -0500
@@ -1496,8 +1496,8 @@
 	 * but that would add to the polling.
 	 */
 	prop = 1;
-	XChangeProperty(xd, xdrawable, prop, XA_STRING, 8, PropModeReplace, (uchar*)"", 0);
-	XConvertSelection(xd, clipboard, XA_STRING, prop, xdrawable, CurrentTime);
+	XChangeProperty(xd, xdrawable, prop, utf8string, 8, PropModeReplace, (uchar*)"", 0);
+	XConvertSelection(xd, clipboard, utf8string, prop, xdrawable, CurrentTime);
 	XFlush(xd);
 	lastlen = 0;
 	for(i=0; i<10 || (lastlen!=0 && i<30); i++){