goofy charset selection for Unicode pastes

[Jamie Zawinski]

In Mozilla 1.7, view an HTML file containing this source:

	foo — bar

Select it, and in XEmacs 21.4.15, do this:

	(charsets-in-string (get-selection 'PRIMARY 'UTF8_STRING))

The result:

	(chinese-cns11643-1 ascii)

If you insert that string (as with a paste) then you get a *Warnings*
buffer that says:

	(font/warning) Unable to instantiate font for face default,
	charset chinese-cns11643-1

So uh, how come I'm getting Chinese fonts for something as simple as
M-dash?  Also, the pasted Chinese character looks exactly like a tilde,
not a dash at all.

Anyone understand this?

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Jamie Zawinski
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