Re: minimizing size (was Re: allocation of Georgian letters)

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Doug Ewell  *  Fullerton, California, USA  *  RFC 4645  *  UTN #14
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Kass" <thunder-bird@earthlink.net>
To: ""Unicode Mailing List"" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2008 2:21
Subject: Re: minimizing size (was Re: allocation of Georgian letters)
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> Doug Ewell wrote,
>
>> ... Sometimes there is a large chunk of random text after the "real" 
>> data; there have been other symptoms as well.
>
> Oh, you sometimes get those bizarre chunks at the end, too?
>
> I'm guessing that this bug relates to non-textual formatting 
> information being sent to the clipboard which, when pasted into a text 
> editor, gets displayed as the mojibake it is.
>
> I often get a whole bunch of extra empty lines followed by what appear 
> to be random strings of a repeated Chinese ideograph (U+8080) 
> interspersed with a control character (U+0080).  (Sometimes there's 
> additional gibberish.)
>
> This happens in BabelPad, but not Notepad.  Notepad apparently assumes 
> that it knows better than the user and/or other applications and 
> removes the mojibake, whereas BabelPad faithfully inserts whatever is 
> in the clipboard memory to the text area.
>
> Which application has the bug, BabelPad or Notepad?  (Trick question, 
> opinions will differ, and the real bug is in the clipboard and/or the 
> application from which the data was copied.)
>
> Best regards,
>
> James Kass