no UTF-8 support

[Dmitriy Geels]

Binary package hint: xclip

Version of xclip from upstream doesn't support UTF-8, so all multibyte characters become 2 single-byte chars.
Here are 2 patches, one from Morita Sho, got here http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=380392#12 and second one from Alt Linux team for version 0.10.

Second patch is actually a Morita Sho patch with reversed logic: it enables UTF-8 mode by default, this is more useful for Ubuntu/Debian.

[Antoine Amarilli (a3nm)]

I can confirm this. Because of this bug, Xclip is next to useless when trying to copy text in languages which use non-ASCII characters.

[Martin Kaufmann (martin.kaufmann)]

Here is a debdiff for the first Patch (Morita Sho) posted by dmig

[jpfle (jpfle)]

I confirm this bug on Ubuntu 8.10. Is it possible to release a fix in the repository, because this bug is very annoying.

[Jouni Mettala (jouni-mettala)]

Confirmed in Jaunty. However these patches doesn't fix it for me. New upstream version that uses utf-8 is requested in bug 327658.

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

According to the Debian bug report, this bug seems to have been fixed and the fix already synced to Ubuntu. I'm closing this bug for now. Please feel free to reopen if you feel that this issue isn't fixed.