[PATCH] Copy and Paste with iconv

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Thu Oct 9 18:55:00 GMT 2003


Kensuke,

The default behavior is not affected if the new command-line parameters 
are not passed, right?  Is there anyway that you can figure out the 
-winencoding parameter from Windows?  I realize that this is an initial 
version, but it would be wise not to introduce a new command-line 
parameter only to get rid of it shortly.

Is it a good idea to add a dependency on libiconv?  I can't think of any 
reason why this would be a problem.

Harold

Kensuke Matsuzaki wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> This patch make xwinclip convert clipboard text encoding using libiconv, 
> so perhaps you can copy and paste non-ASCII characters on Win9x.
> But I don't have Win9X, I haven't tested it yet.
> 
> I could copy and paste Unicode text on NT/2000/XP, but CJK characters
> sometimes become other CJK characters because of Han Unification.
> This patch fix this problem.
> 
> For example, I use following command line option on Windows XP.
> LANG=ja_JP.eucJP
> XWin -clipboard -nounicodeclipboard -winencoding SHIFT_JIS -xencoding EUC-JP
> 
> Test on other language environment and 9x platform needed.
> 
> Kensuke Matsuzaki



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