From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: getclip and putclip garble unicode characters
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 12:54:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2b37488d-83be-898f-15df-bc6f3bc0fa52@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29705e0f-f6b4-eca8-f350-b4100d2c7244@towo.net>
On 2021-06-25 12:01, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Am 24.06.2021 um 08:35 schrieb Andrey Repin via Cygwin:
>> Greetings, Миронов Леонид Владимирович!
>>> getclip and putclip from cygutils-extra garble unicode characters:
>>> non-latin characters copied to clipboard in windows are replaced with
>>> question marks when retrieved with getclip in cygwin, and non-latin
>>> characters copied to clipboard using putclip are pasted it in windows
>>> looking like utf-8 displayed in cp1252 but can be retrieved with getclip
>>> exactly as pasted, so it looks like the problem is not in the way the
>>> data
>>> is copied but in the way cygwin and windows communicate text encoding to
>>> each other. LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8, windows ANSI codepage is set to
>>> cp1251 - 1251, not 1252.
>> This looks like you are using a program incapable of dealing with unicode
>> clipboard. To achieve better results, switch your input
>> language/keyboard to
>> matching language before copying text from application. I.e. switch to
>> Russian then copy text, then check what is returned by getclip.
>> But then, why LC_CTYPE is en_US?
> getclip and putclip are just broken, they don't even work in a pure
> UTF-8 environment.
> Already noticed 9 years ago...
> https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/cygwin/2012-03/msg00648.html
> including a script-based replacement.
Just cat [<>] /dev/clipboard: recent Windows changes may have affected
Windows<->X copy and paste transparency.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-23 13:45 Миронов Леонид Владимирович
2021-06-23 22:27 ` Mark Geisert
2021-07-05 10:04 ` Mark Geisert
2021-06-24 6:35 ` Andrey Repin
2021-06-25 9:00 ` Миронов Леонид Владимирович
2021-06-25 18:01 ` Thomas Wolff
2021-06-25 18:54 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
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