Bug 430826 - Copying an accented letter with the mouse into emacs does not work
Summary: Copying an accented letter with the mouse into emacs does not work
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: emacs
Version: 10
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Daniel Novotny
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-01-29 23:16 UTC by Jacek Chrząszcz
Modified: 2009-09-21 12:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-09-21 12:00:20 UTC
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screenshot of emacs with a strange character (27.74 KB, image/png)
2008-01-29 23:16 UTC, Jacek Chrząszcz
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Description Jacek Chrząszcz 2008-01-29 23:16:01 UTC
Description of problem:

While copying text with polish diacrytic characters with the mouse into emacs,
one character (l with bar) does not show correctly. It _did_ show correctly in
F7 though.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
emacs-22.1-8.fc8

How reproducible:
using the mouse, copy some text containing ł - a polish l with bar - (for
example from this page
http://leksykot.top.hell.pl/jenzyk/polskie/drobiazgi/ogonki
) to the emacs window

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start emacs
2.in a web browser open http://leksykot.top.hell.pl/jenzyk/polskie/drobiazgi/ogonki
3.select the whole title "Ogonki..." with the mouse
4.middle-click into emacs
  
Actual results:
Ogonki, czyli zażó[strange ł character]ć gęślą jaźń [see attached screenshot]

Expected results:
Ogonki, czyli zażółć gęślą jaźń

Additional info:
* I am sure this did work correctly in emacs 22 in F7
* this does not work in Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy (either emacs 21 or 22), but does work
in emacs 23 from http://peadrop.com/blog/2007/01/06/pretty-emacs
* it is perfectly possible to enter ł (l with bar) in emacs with the keyboard
* when saved to a UTF-8 encoded file, this character is saved as a normal ł (l
with bar) entered 
* the same error occurs when ł is copied from other windows, e.g. terminal
* when [strange ł] is copied with the mouse from emacs to terminal, it works ok
* copying ł with the mouse in other applications woks without problems.
* copying correct ł and incorrect ł from emacs to emacs works as follows:
correct ł is pased as correct ł and incorrect ł as incorrect ł
* I am testing this in Gnome, started by emacs -q from a terminal with polish
locale:
[chrzaszcz@minio ~]$ locale
LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

I hope you can repair the problem or send a helpful bug report upstream.

Jacek

Comment 1 Jacek Chrząszcz 2008-01-29 23:16:01 UTC
Created attachment 293355 [details]
screenshot of emacs with a strange character

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Comment 4 Jacek Chrząszcz 2008-12-01 23:02:30 UTC
This bug is still present in Fedora 10.

Comment 5 Daniel Novotny 2009-09-21 12:00:20 UTC
this works in Fedora 11, after Emacs update to 23.1


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