Re: but you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask

[Robert Thorpe]

Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:
> Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org> writes:
...
>> I haven't followed the thread closely, so sorry if this was
>> already asked (and feel free to ignore): What happens if you
>> disable (or otherwise avoid enabling) this program?
>
> You Sir, are a genius! Everything works perfectly and pastes cleanly
> without using it!

I had a quick look in the code to simpleclip.el, it just calls xsel
directly to get the contents of the X clipboard.  It isn't very careful about
using UTF-8, that's why the funny strings appear.  In 'x-get-selection'
Emacs is much more careful about that.  It's a simpleclip bug.

BR,
Robert Thorpe