bug#81417: 30.2; pgtk: textual selection targets are served as Latin-1 on Wayland, causing mojibake when pasting into Cromium

Den ons 15 juli 2026 kl 16:27 skrev Victor Vollbrecht
<[email protected]>:
> On the pgtk build running natively on Wayland, copying text containing
> non-ASCII characters from Emacs and pasting it into a Chromium-based
> browser (tested with Vivaldi 8.1 running with --ozone-platform=wayland)
> corrupts the non-ASCII characters. For example, copying

The same issue has been reported for the Brave browser:

https://community.brave.app/t/clipboard-corrupts-accented-utf-8-characters-from-emacs-into-brave-under-native-wayland/655984

To the best of my knowledge, Chromium/Brave is at fault and not
Emacs. Indeed, Emacs uses a very long list of formats, with
latin-1-encoded formats occurring before utf-8-encoded ones. However,
removing older latin1-formats probably breaks copy-paste for legacy
x11 programs. And programs other than Chromium/Brave do not
misinterpret pastes from Emacs.


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mvh/best regards Björn Lindqvist