[issue14777] Tkinter clipboard_get() decodes characters incorrectly

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> But the encoding used seemingly depends on the source application -
> Geany (GTK 2, I think) seemingly sends UTF8 text anyway, whereas
> Firefox escapes the unicode character. So I don't think we can
> correctly decode the STRING value in all cases.

Ah, ok. IIUC, support for UTF8_STRING would also be in the realm of
the source application, right? If so, I think we should use something
more involved where we try UTF8_STRING first, and fall back to STRING
if the application doesn't support that.

This I could also accept for 2.7, since it "shouldn't" have a potential
for breakage.

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