On Mon, August 6, 2018 7:45 pm, Ryan Tate wrote: > When pasting text through the Qubes Clipboard, I noticed the emdash > character (—) is silently removed. > > Reproduction: > > > Copy this text, paste it elsewhere in SAME AppVM (so no Qubes Clipboard > involvement): One — two three. > > > It should paste fine. > > > Copy the same text to the Qubes Clipboard (Control-C Control-Shift-C), > paste into same program in DIFFERENT AppVM with Control-Shift-V > Control-V. > > > Expected: Text is same > > > Seen: Text is mangled, no more "—". > > > Now, Joanna of the Qubes team has written that Qubes only uses the > passive X11 clipboard with no "rich text" > (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/qubes-devel/fgjEKCOnM7E/zciO65Vm_l > cJ). But this is still just plain text, albeit utf-8, it should work fine > in passive mode. From what I can tell googling around, X11 clipboard > supports utf8/Unicode so even if emdash is non ASCII shouldn't it still > be supported? Is there some security risk to pasting unicode text, or is > this a bug? > > Thanks for any insights.
Can confirm the behaviour but afraid no insights here. Could maybe try asking on qubes-devel or just submitting as an issue? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/35bdad5b4041f0dea55932036f6a4dfc.squirrel%40tt3j2x4k5ycaa5zt.onion. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
