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

[Dieter Verfaillie]

On 12/01/2011 16:24, Giuseppe Penone wrote:
> Yes I also was thinking that, being the first two chars not valid (\0xff and
> \0xfe)

That would be the BOM (Byte Order Mark)...

, the problem is that I cannot find a reference to understand what is
> the encoding according to those chars.

... for UTF-16LE (or UTF-16 for short). You'll also want to be careful
about NULL characters.

The attached fragment accepts "html" pastes from firefox/thinderbird
and correctly shows the Arabic fragment from your original message
when copied from thunderbird.

Hey, it even honors RTL, which is kinda neat :)

mvg,
Dieter
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