selection offered by gnome-terminal is UTF-8, not UTF8_STRING
Submitted by Martin Norbäck
Assigned to jacob berkman
Description
(gnome-terminal 1.4.0.4)
gnome-terminal can export the selection in UTF-8 format, but the atom for doing so is called UTF-8 instead of UTF8_STRING which is the proposed standard.
I assume this is a simple thing to change.
To easily test which selection modes are available you can use wish and type the following while having something selected
selection get TARGETS
for gnome-terminal this gives me TIMESTAMP TARGETS MULTIPLE STRING UTF-8 TEXT COMPOUND_TEXT
for xterm this gives me STRING TEXT COMPOUND_TEXT UTF8_STRING LENGTH LIST_LENGTH TIMESTAMP HOSTNAME IP_ADDRESS USER CLASS NAME CLIENT_WINDOW
UTF8_STRING is also present in other applications, such as mozilla, so it would be good to have it in gnome-terminal as well.
Resolution: RESOLVED OBSOLETE