I get the plain text, excluding the html code. When you copy from a web browser like Chrome you get several different formats. So if I copy your post from gmail the TEXT is ------------------------------------------------- What happen if you simply try using:
script = clipboard.text instead of script = clipboard.formatdata Leaving the rest as it is. ----------------------------------------------------- but the text/html is <div>What happen if you simply try using:<br></div><div><br></div><div> script = clipboard.text</div><div>instead of</div><div> script = clipboard.formatdata<br></div><div><br></div><div> Leaving the rest as it is. </div> On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 23:13, Antonio Scuri <antonio.sc...@gmail.com> wrote: > What happen if you simply try using: > > script = clipboard.text > instead of > script = clipboard.formatdata > > Leaving the rest as it is. > > Best, > Scuri > > > Em seg., 4 de mai. de 2020 às 13:41, Jane Taubman <janetaub...@gmail.com> > escreveu: > >> I'll try to explain in a clearer way. >> >> If I open a file saved in UTF-16 in Lua using the IO library. I can >> then handle the content of that file to convert each pair of bytes as >> needed to end up with UTF-8 or even Ascii. All I want to do is to be able >> to read in the text/html format from the clipboard and process it in lua. >> >> However I can not do anything with the Light user Data returned from the >> Clipboard using Lua, that I can discover. >> >> >> >> On Sun, 3 May 2020 at 21:56, Andrew Robinson <arobinso...@cox.net> wrote: >> >>> I hate to state the obvious but in a string data type, an >>> ASCII "character" is one byte in size (char), and a UTF-16 "character" is >>> two bytes in size (short). >>> >>> I apologize if this is out-of-place for your conversation, but I get a >>> lot of people who confuse a string character with a byte, instead of a >>> variable number of bytes, but ... you know, just in case that is the real >>> issue here I wanted to "fix it". >>> >>> So I'm not sure whether to say de nada or lo siento, >>> Andrew >>> >>> On 2020-05-03 at 12:02 PM, Antonio Scuri <antonio.sc...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > The UTF-16 function takes a "string" >>> >>> That is weird. UTF-16 strings are *unsigned short** arrays, strings >>> in Lua are *char** arrays. Something is not right. >>> >>> Is there a link for the documentation of that library? >>> >>> Best, >>> Scuri >>> >>> >>> Em dom., 3 de mai. de 2020 às 09:02, Jane Taubman <janetaub...@gmail.com> >>> escreveu: >>> >>>> > "data" can not be converted to a string using "tostring". It must >>>> use this function you mentioned. >>>> >>>> Sorry I did not make myself clear. The UTF-16 function takes a >>>> "string" and will not work with a "light user data" so I need to know how >>>> to convert the light user data from the iup.clipboard to a string using >>>> just lua. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Jane. >>>> >>>> Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk | www.fhug.org.uk >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Iup-users mailing list >>>> Iup-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/iup-users >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Iup-users mailing list >>> Iup-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/iup-users >>> >> >> >> -- >> Jane. >> >> Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk | www.fhug.org.uk >> _______________________________________________ >> Iup-users mailing list >> Iup-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/iup-users >> > _______________________________________________ > Iup-users mailing list > Iup-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/iup-users > -- Jane. Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk | www.fhug.org.uk
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