Re: [Evolution] Strange result from copying

[Van Snyder <van snyder sbcglobal net>]

On Sun, 2022-01-16 at 13:03 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:

I intended to copy a small piece of text from the Firefox to a message being composed, namely (the result of copying from Firefox to Vi, then from Vi to Evolution):

Biden took aim at those who would lower prices by breaking the buying power of the working class. “If car prices are too high right now, there are two solutions,” Biden said. “You increase
the supply of cars by making more of them, or you reduce demand for cars by making Americans poorer. That’s the choice. Believe it or not, there’s a lot of people in the second camp.”

This is what got pasted to evolution (the result of copying directly from the NY Times; copy and paste; and highlight, center-clidk yield the same result):

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Any ideas.  I fear (and hope) that this problem can't be reproduced.

I have this problem, and a related one, frequently.

I think it's an artifact of some web page generators maybe switching to UTF-8.

I also noticed that in some cases, highlighting a paragraph, copying to the clipboard (Ctrl-C), and trying to paste it (Ctrl-V) does nothing.

The workaround for both of these is not to select the last character of the paragraph.

My system is Debian 10 (Buster) with

KDE Plasma 5.20.5

KDE Frameworks 5.78.0

Qt 5.15.2

Kernel 5.10.0-90-amd64

System is:

Operating System: Fedora Linux 35

KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.4

KDE Frameworks Version: 5.89.0

Qt Version: 5.15.2

Kernel Version: 5.15.14-200.fc35.x86_64 (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: X11

Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz

Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM

Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4600

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