On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Ashley Gullen <ash...@scirra.com> wrote: > Why is it desirable to copy ASCII versions of unicode text? Doesn't most > software now support unicode so the user can copy and paste what they see, > rather than some ASCII-art equivalent?
I am writing a documentation generation tool for a programming language with right arrows represented as -> but would like to render them as →. > On 13 February 2015 at 15:45, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote: > >> On 2/13/15 10:15 AM, David Sheets wrote: >> >>> I suppose currently Chrome is preventing copying hidden content but >>> Firefox is not and neither picks up the CSS content. >>> >> >> Both prevent copying hidden content, but may not have identical >> definitions of "hidden". >> >> Neither picks up CSS generated content, because both represent selections >> in terms of DOM ranges, and DOM ranges can't represent CSS generated >> content... >> >> -Boris >> >>
