On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:11:54 +0200, Damienn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>From Derry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-10-10 15.33 (+0100 GMT) > >>With the RC of 5.5. If I copy something from Powemail, when switch to >>Tex-Edit <http://www.tex-edit.com/>, I eventually get an error of >>"Nothing can be pasted from the clipboard" after a few seconds of >>complete slowdown. This didn't happen with 5.2. I can paste into other >>apps from PowerMail just fine, and can paste from other apps into Tex- >>edit just fine. > >Yes, I can also reproduce this, using Tex-Edit Plus 4.9.2. > >The interesting thing is, that if I use Tex-Edit's "Paste Unstyled" (Opt- >Cmd-V) from the "Copy & Paste Special" menu, then I can paste the copied >text from PowerMail. > >And this makes me wonder: Are text strings in PowerMail somehow get >STYLED (or get some kind of extra code which differs from pure (ASCII-text)? Yes, PowerMail puts styled text (TEXT + styl) on the clipboard, even if it only has to copy plain text. This may sound strange, but it's actually necessary with pre-Unicode text because the style part carries text encoding information, without which the receiving application wouldn't be able to determine whether the original text was Roman, Cyrillic, Japanese, or whatever. Remember, ASCII is only good for English text -- you can't properly represent French or German with ASCII, let alone non-Roman languages. As for the bug with Tex-Edit Plus you're seeing, this is due to additional, WASTE-specific data put on the clipboard by PowerMail in a format that chokes Tex-Edit Plus (itself a WASTE-based editor). CTM engineering is taking care of this issue as I write. -- marco -- It's not the data universe only, it's human conversation. They want to turn it into a one-way flow that they have entirely monetized. I look at the collective human mind as a kind of ecosystem. They want to clear cut it. They want to go into the rainforest of human thought and mow the thing down.
