Issue #14777: In an X11 windowing environment, tkinter may return
undecoded UTF-8 bytes as a string when accessing the Tk clipboard.
Modify clipboad_get() to first request type UTF8_STRING when no
specific type is requested in an X11 windowing environment, falling
back to the current default type STRING if that fails.
Original patch by Thomas Kluyver.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1da4cee..a1572cd 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@
Library
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+- Issue #14777: tkinter may return undecoded UTF-8 bytes as a string when
+ accessing the Tk clipboard. Modify clipboad_get() to first request type
+ UTF8_STRING when no specific type is requested in an X11 windowing
+ environment, falling back to the current default type STRING if that fails.
+ Original patch by Thomas Kluyver.
+
- Issue #12541: Be lenient with quotes around Realm field with HTTP Basic
Authentation in urllib2.