diff -r 9ac9af07f1ce -r 68b145d54e2a jdk/src/share/classes/sun/awt/datatransfer/DataTransferer.java
--- a/jdk/src/share/classes/sun/awt/datatransfer/DataTransferer.java	Tue Oct 29 19:01:46 2013 +0400
+++ b/jdk/src/share/classes/sun/awt/datatransfer/DataTransferer.java	Tue Oct 29 21:46:03 2013 +0400
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2000, 2008, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2000, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -1740,6 +1740,14 @@
             }
             theObject = files;
 
+        // Target data is a String. Strip terminating NUL bytes. Decode bytes
+        // into characters. Search-and-replace EOLN.
+        } else if (String.class.equals(flavor.getRepresentationClass()) &&
+                   isFlavorCharsetTextType(flavor) && isTextFormat(format)) {
+
+            return translateBytesToString(inputStreamToByteArray(str),
+                format, localeTransferable);
+
             // Special hack to maintain backwards-compatibility with the brokenness
             // of StringSelection. Return a StringReader instead of an InputStream.
             // Recur to obtain String and encapsulate.