Unicode text in clipboard

[Oli Sturm]

Hi,

I found a problem yesterday: I had some markdown text rendered to HTML with the smartypants option to replace "--" with a long dash. The generated file contained a unicode entity for that character, I copied it to the clipboard, then did Ctrl-Shift-C and Ctrl-Shift-V, then pasted in another VM. Suddenly the unicode character was gone - the only difference as far as I could tell.

Are there known problems in that area? I don't know which software package is responsible for this - I'm on R4.0 with recent updates.

Thanks

Oli

[awokd]

'Oli Sturm' via qubes-users:

> Hi,
>
> I found a problem yesterday: I had some markdown text rendered to HTML with the smartypants option to replace "--" with a long dash. The generated file contained a unicode entity for that character, I copied it to the clipboard, then did Ctrl-Shift-C and Ctrl-Shift-V, then pasted in another VM. Suddenly the unicode character was gone - the only difference as far as I could tell.
>
> Are there known problems in that area? I don't know which software package is responsible for this - I'm on R4.0 with recent updates.

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/236 says unicode is
supported. If you can recreate it, might be worth submitting a new issue
referencing that one?

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[Andrew David Wong]

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On 2019-10-03 11:42 AM, 'awokd' via qubes-users wrote:
> 'Oli Sturm' via qubes-users:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I found a problem yesterday: I had some markdown text rendered to
>> HTML with the smartypants option to replace "--" with a long
>> dash. The generated file contained a unicode entity for that
>> character, I copied it to the clipboard, then did Ctrl-Shift-C
>> and Ctrl-Shift-V, then pasted in another VM. Suddenly the unicode
>> character was gone - the only difference as far as I could tell.
>>
>> Are there known problems in that area? I don't know which
>> software package is responsible for this - I'm on R4.0 with
>> recent updates.
>
> https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/236 says unicode is
> supported. If you can recreate it, might be worth submitting a new
> issue referencing that one?
>

Possibly related: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2845

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org

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[Oli Sturm]

On Friday, October 4, 2019 12:43 AM, Andrew David Wong <a...@qubes-os.org> wrote:

> On 2019-10-03 11:42 AM, 'awokd' via qubes-users wrote:
>

> > 'Oli Sturm' via qubes-users:
> >

> > > Hi,
> > > I found a problem yesterday: I had some markdown text rendered to
> > > HTML with the smartypants option to replace "--" with a long
> > > dash. The generated file contained a unicode entity for that
> > > character, I copied it to the clipboard, then did Ctrl-Shift-C
> > > and Ctrl-Shift-V, then pasted in another VM. Suddenly the unicode
> > > character was gone - the only difference as far as I could tell.
> > > Are there known problems in that area? I don't know which
> > > software package is responsible for this - I'm on R4.0 with
> > > recent updates.
> >

> > https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/236 says unicode is
> > supported. If you can recreate it, might be worth submitting a new
> > issue referencing that one?
>

> Possibly related:https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2845

Agreed, that sounds like the same problem. I did a search but I didn't imagine the issue to be so specific to dashes - I was using search terms like "unicode" and didn't come up with anything.

Meanwhile it doesn't look like these issues (#2845 and https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/4739) are going anywhere. Can we do anything to analyze the problem more, or are additional use cases required to reproduce? I think this is quite important, not just for the purpose of copying dashes, but also because broken confidence in the clipboard transfer process makes life a lot harder...

Thanks
Oli

[Andrew David Wong]

The most effective way to make progress on those issues would be to
contribute patches. Short of that, any information you can provide that
would help the devs fix the problem would help.

Aside from that, I'm afraid it's simply a matter of having a small, very
busy dev team and well over a thousand open issues of which this is only
one.