failed to paste unicode text from the system clipboard

[TheBB]

Originally reported by: Anonymous

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Versions: Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Evil 1.2.3. X mode

Example:

• run make emacs
• copy from browser "fällen"
• press i C-r +

the following text will be pasted f\344llen.
If you use M-x clipboard-yank, everything works as expected.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/lyro/evil/issue/580

[TheBB]

Original comment by Frank Fischer (Bitbucket: lyro, GitHub: lyro):

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Use x-selection-value-internal for accessing x selection (fix #580)

This function selects an encoding according to the variable
x-select-request-type. Does this change work on non-X systems, too?

[TheBB]

Original comment by Frank Fischer (Bitbucket: lyro, GitHub: lyro):

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Use x-get-selection for accessing selection with conversion (re #580)

Hopefully, this code is platform independent.