Re: Should copy + paste change characters?
Re: Should copy + paste change characters?
- Subject: Re: Should copy + paste change characters?
- From: Uli Kusterer <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 15:09:27 +0100
On 27 Dec 2013, at 11:22, Gerriet M. Denkmann <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 27 Dec 2013, at 15:23, Ken Thomases <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On Dec 27, 2013, at 2:01 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:
>>
>>> When I have a rich text (with the font set to Heiti SC Light), which contains these three lines:
>>>
>>> L'œuf de volaille = 鸡卵 Note: LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
>>> traditional: "盧" simplified: "卢" Note: CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F933
>>> traditional: "雞" simplified: "鸡"
>>>
>>> and I select all and copy it into another rich text, I get:
>>>
>>> L'oeuf de volaille = 鸡卵 Note: LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
>>> traditional: "卢" simplified: "卢" Note: CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F933
>>> traditional: "雞" simplified: "鸡"
>>>
>>> In the second rich text the start of the egg has changed to "oe" (which is just NOT correct French) and the difference between traditional and simplified for "black" is no longer discernible (while this difference is still visible for "chicken").
>>>
>>> Note that all characters are part of Heiti SC Light; no font substitution has taken place nor is necessary.
>>>
>>> Is this correct behaviour, or should one be able to trust "copy" to put the copied text unmodified to the rich pasteboards?
>>
>> In what app or with what code does this happen? I'm not seeing it with TextEdit on Mac OS X 10.6.
>
> On 10.9.1 (I don't have 10.6) I do see it with TextEdit:
>
> Copy the text from this eMail into a TextEdit window
> use Edit → Special Characters... to change 盧 back to CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F933
> Select all
> Set the font to Heiti SC Light
> copy and paste into another rich TextEdit window
FWIW, Mail uses a WebView for its text editing, while TextEdit uses a Cocoa NSTextView. May be a clue.
Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
“The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere...”
http://zathras.de
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