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Chromium 88 very strange copy & paste behaviour #19

Closed Pearl-852 closed 2 years ago

Pearl-852 commented 3 years ago

There is this issue being discussed in the Raspberry Pi Forum

I am experiencing the same problem also, characters that are utf-8 encoded fonts are displaying as a /u+nnnn code when pasted into Chromium browser (i.e. Google Translate, Google search, etc.)

What I have tested so far,

  1. Copy a Chinese filename from PCManFM, and paste into Google Translate, shows \u+nnnn codes.
  2. Copy some Chinese characters from an email in Thunderbird, and paste into Google Translate, shows \u+nnnn codes.
  3. Copy some Chinese characters from a document in LibreOffice Writer, and paste into Google Translate, shows just "????"
  4. Copy some Chinese characters from a webpage in Chromium browser, and paste into Google Translate, shows correctly.

My current workaround is

  1. Copy the desire unicode characters as usual.
  2. Paste the copied unicode contents into a new document to Google Doc in Chromium browser.
  3. Highlight and copy the same pasted contents from Google Doc.
  4. Paste this newly copied contents into Google Translate, Google search, etc. and it should display correctly.
XECDesign commented 3 years ago

Not sure if this is a generic issue with chromium 88 that will go away once we update to 90. We'll have to see when v90 is ready.

XECDesign commented 3 years ago

Found a workaround for you.

Go to chrome://flags/#raw-clipboard, enable it and relaunch chromium. That seems to make it work as you expect.

Pearl-852 commented 3 years ago

Thanks for your quick response. Tried with your workaround suggestion, but the results are the same as before. See screenshots below,

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Test results: (Same orders as reported on my original post) Test_results

XECDesign commented 3 years ago

Did you relaunch chromium after making that change? Because it's working for me.

Pearl-852 commented 3 years ago

Yes, I did. Twice.

XECDesign commented 3 years ago

Wonder why we're seeing different behaviour. Sounds like we'll need to see what happens with v90.

Pearl-852 commented 3 years ago

Even, rebooted system just now to make sure.

Pearl-852 commented 2 years ago

For the record, the issue has been fixed on Chromium Browser Version 90.0.4430.212 (Developer Build) built on Debian 10.2, running on Debian 10.11 (32-bit)