[Vm-dev] primitiveClipboardText mangling line endings

[Levente Uzonyi]

Hi Eliot,

On Sat, 25 Oct 2014, Eliot Miranda wrote:

> Is there some magic X11 setting that could account for your issue?

No, at least not intentionally. I tried to check if there are any settings 
that could affect the clipboard encoding, but I didn't find anything. It 
seems like only utf-8 is supported.

I'm pretty sure it's related to the VM, because when I copy some text from 
another application, and paste it into an image, then the line endings are 
converted to CRs, which is very unlikely to happen on linux.

I tried to copy all 7-bit ascii characters to the clipboard (besides zero 
which is not possible), because those are the same in utf-8:

Clipboard default primitiveClipboardText: (1 to: 127) asByteArray.

When I checked it with xclip, it turned out that all the bytes are on the 
clipboard:

$ xclip -o -selection clipboard | hexdump -b;
0000000 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 010 011 012 013 014 012 016 017 020
0000010 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 040
0000020 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 050 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 060
0000030 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 100
0000040 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 120
0000050 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 140
0000060 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 160
0000070 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177
000007f

But in the other image, the bytes were filtered:

Clipboard default primitiveClipboardText asByteArray. #[9 13 27 32 33 34 
35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 
60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 
85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 
107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 
125 126]

Levente