diff --git a/jdk/src/share/classes/sun/awt/datatransfer/DataTransferer.java b/jdk/src/share/classes/sun/awt/datatransfer/DataTransferer.java
index fab61893a75..3d79770b04a 100644
--- a/jdk/src/share/classes/sun/awt/datatransfer/DataTransferer.java
+++ b/jdk/src/share/classes/sun/awt/datatransfer/DataTransferer.java
@@ -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 @@ search:
             }
             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.
diff --git a/jdk/src/share/classes/sun/awt/dnd/SunDropTargetContextPeer.java b/jdk/src/share/classes/sun/awt/dnd/SunDropTargetContextPeer.java
index ed5b2b8b97b..d44a0064c53 100644
--- a/jdk/src/share/classes/sun/awt/dnd/SunDropTargetContextPeer.java
+++ b/jdk/src/share/classes/sun/awt/dnd/SunDropTargetContextPeer.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2000, 2010, 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
@@ -271,14 +271,11 @@ public abstract class SunDropTargetContextPeer implements DropTargetContextPeer,
                 throw new InvalidDnDOperationException(e.getMessage());
             }
         } else if (ret instanceof InputStream) {
-            InputStream inputStream = (InputStream)ret;
             try {
                 return DataTransferer.getInstance().
-                    translateStream(inputStream, df, format, this);
+                    translateStream((InputStream)ret, df, format, this);
             } catch (IOException e) {
                 throw new InvalidDnDOperationException(e.getMessage());
-            } finally {
-                inputStream.close();
             }
         } else {
             throw new IOException("no native data was transfered");