But in whose clipboard management...? ;-)
Reassigned to Éric.

I cannot reproduce this.
Please try to reproduce this and find which kind of text, selections 
causes this problem. Attach the text file to the issue and describe 
exactly what kind of "gibberish characters" you get.

Created attachment 1132 [details]
test results of several paste-special with "added" chars

Created attachment 1133 [details]
Test input data for Notepad loading and repeated Paste-special (see detailed YR message)

I have been giving it another try. I now have a fairly certain way of
reproducing it without involving much outside variables (excluding
most of the question of Eric ;-)

Let say I have the following text in a Notepad window:

------------ begin -------------
Canter & Siegel
http://www.eff.org/pub/Legal/Cases/Canter_Siegel/
Avril 1994, deux avocats de Phoenix (Arizona, USA) ont posté un 
nombre conisdérable de messages proposant leurs services 
(essentiellement inutiles, d'ailleurs) pour participer à la loterie 
organisée par le gouvernement américain en vue de la distribution 
d'un lot de Green cards (cette carte est nécessaire pour tout étranger 
désirant travailler aux USA). Ils avaient fait cette publicité 
manuellement sur plusieurs groupes de discussion Usenet, mais le 
12 avril, avec l'aide d'un programmeur, ils ont bombardé tous les 
groupes de discussion Usenet (plusieurs milliers) en quelques 
minutes.

Le terme de SPAM semble avoir vraiment pris pied dans les jours qui 
ont suivi pour décrire ce type de pratique sur Usenet. Il sera repris 
ensuite pour le courrier électronique.
----------- end -------------


I select all the text in Notepad. And Copy it (to the [text]
clipboard). Then, I open a new "text document" from the Windows icon
bar. In the empty document page, I will go Edit>Paste Special... and
selected "unformatted text" (the only available option, actually). the
text is copied into the text document. About 3 times out of 4, I get
the text plus a few chars isolated on an added line at the end. In the
tests I just did the added chars were each time either nothing or the
set of 4-5 chars (with no end-of-line included) as in:

--- nothing ---
--- nothing ---
˜###
›#x#
--- nothing ---
?# ##
m#x##
¶####
£###
¡#ˆ##
--- nothing ---
--- nothing ---
¤#0#


I hope that despite the fact the "test" text is in French, somebody
will be able to reproduce the issue. I have attached both the result
of the operation (for clarification) and the original Notepad data to
insure people can get it all including accented letters if that has
any impact and it would not go easily thru the HTML form box).

AdvThxance
Yves R

Now I can reproduce it

ES->AMA:
On Win98:
- 641c -> as described (random amount/kind of trash cars)
- 642 -> one hash at the end of the pasted selection.
On both: crash when holding [Ctrl]+V during approx. 2 pages. 

On Win2000:
- 641c -> 1 haas at the end of the pasted selection.
- 642 -> everything seems to be ok.

ES->roums:
> I hope that despite the fact the "test" text is in French,
> somebody will be able to reproduce the issue.

T'inquiètes pas, on trouve toujours moyen de s'débrouiller ;-)

I've learned French for four years but this happens more than twenty-
five years ago the last millenium. However, I'll check this bug and 
will ask JP about it.

AMA->ES: Please test the behaviour in our latest version. If it still
occurs, please send this bug to CMC, who's responsible for the ASCII
filter. Maybe there's an uninitialized variable in the filter which
causes these behaviour.

Ok now in 644m4

closed

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