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To: "Norman Diamond" <ndiamond@wta.att.ne.jp>
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Subject: Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API
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>>>>> "ND" == Norman Diamond <ndiamond@wta.att.ne.jp> writes:

ND> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Even X cut and paste frequently abuses the iso8859-1 range,

ND> I'll take your word for it.  I've copied and pasted EUC
ND> strings, I've copied and pasted SJIS strings, I don't know
ND> if X copy and paste abused EUC or SJIS ranges, but it
ND> worked.

I do not know what Eric means by "abusing the iso8859-1 rnge",
but passing X selection between traditional X clients IIRC uses
compound text, which is an encoding vaguely similar to ISO-2022,
so clients like kterm can convert it back and forth with EUC or
SJIS as needed.