[pygtk] problem pasting clipboard content from arabic website (target text/html)

[Giuseppe Penone]

Hi,
I have a problem with gtk.clipboard() and gtk.selectiondata() in my open
source app http://giuspen.com/cherrytree
when pasting clipboard content from arabic website taking data from the
target "text/html".

when printing the selectiondata.data I can see that the content is: (print
to terminal)

��<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: red;"><span
style="color: black;">'DE4GH1 H'D1'&9 AI 'D'5/'1
'D,/J/ *E '5D'- (96 'D9DD H*E
9ED</span></span></span>

where the first two chars are 255 and 254.

when I write to the textbuffer I see:
'DE4GH1 H'D1'&9 AI 'D'5/'1 'D,/J/ *E '5D'- (96 'D9DD H*E 9ED

instead of:
المشهور والرائع فى الاصدار الجديد تم اصلاح بعض العلل وتم عمل

I checked the source code of the website (http://ubuntu-c.blogspot.com/) and
the encoding is utf-8, so I don't have idea of how to behave.
Please if anybody can give me a clue help me.
Regards,
Giuseppe.
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