Thank you, I will give it try when the app I use adopts the new release.

On Fri, 8 May 2020, 15:16 Andrew Robinson, <arobinso...@cox.net> wrote:

> Nice.
>
> On 2020-05-08 at 6:42 AM, Antonio Scuri <antonio.sc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Ok.
>
>   I had an idea. Just added a new attribute for IupClipboard:
>
> FORMATDATASTRING [Windows and GTK Only]: sets/gets FORMATDATA and
> FORMATDATASIZE considering data being a string in the system format. (since
> 3.29)
>
> Best,
> Scuri
>
>
>
>
> Em qui, 7 de mai de 2020 06:32, Jane Taubman <janetaub...@gmail.com>
> escreveu:
>
>> 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.
>>>>>>
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