Clipboard copy/paste cyrillic text
When copying note to a clipboard (at the chosen English keyboard), the inserting of the copied note from a clipboard to another application (I tried application "Bred") has a bug: instead of inserting Cyrillic symbols the "question marks" are inserted. At chosen Russian keyboard - everything is normal. It's known Problem - if I am not mistaken, it is necessary to report about the codepage of a copied note to the Windows Clipboard. Whether it is possible to correct? (Inserting Clipboard into Windows WordPad works without bug - probably, the problem is in "old" applications)
I found examples, how to fix this copy/past behavior:
C++ Source for non-unicode application (compiled in "C++ Builder" ):
const AnsiString strData="string to copy";
// open the system clipboard and delete all the data in it
if(!OpenClipboard(NULL))
{
//Error
throw Exception( "" );
}
EmptyClipboard();
//allocate memory in global heap for buffer
HGLOBAL hglbCopy = GlobalAlloc(GMEM_MOVEABLE | GMEM_DDESHARE, strData.Length() + 1);
if(!hglbCopy)
{
CloseClipboard();
//Error
throw Exception( "" );
}
//lock the memory object to guarantee that nobody can move or discard it
LPTSTR lptstrCopy = (LPTSTR)GlobalLock(hglbCopy);
if(!lptstrCopy)
{
CloseClipboard();
GlobalFree(hglbCopy);
//Error
throw Exception( "" );
}
// copy the buffer into locked memory object
memcpy(lptstrCopy, strData.data(), strData.Length());
lptstrCopy += strData.Length();
*lptstrCopy = 0; // string null terminator
//unlock the memory object
GlobalUnlock(hglbCopy);
//put the data into clipboard in text format
HANDLE hClipData = SetClipboardData(CF_TEXT, hglbCopy);
if(!hClipData)
{
CloseClipboard();
GlobalFree(hglbCopy);
//Error
throw Exception( "" );
}
//set locale for text in the clipboard
hClipData = SetClipboardData(CF_LOCALE, hglbCopy);
if(!hClipData)
{
CloseClipboard();
GlobalFree(hglbCopy);
//Error
throw Exception( "" );
}
//close the system clipboard
CloseClipboard();
Answer
Thanks for the report!
Could you please post a link where we can get this "Bred" application for testing purposes?
All other applications seem to work fine. Thanks!
Also, do any other applications exhibit this bug? Which ones?
I use BRED version 3.0.3U
"Bred" application URLs:
http://www.astonshell.ru/freeware/bred3/
http://www.astonshell.ru/files/bred3.0.3-setup_2k.exe
Some another issues of this copy/paste bug:
http://dvnuance.net/?p=973
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ru-RU/xpru/thread/4f1b3777-30e6-44dd-a646-21f68d7c80b5/
http://rxlib.ru/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=3&t=4078&s=6a0acd123561bc5ed888224d6e218eb2
I have this bug (or annoying behavior of clipboard?) on Windows XP SP3. I think, that is not bug of CN, but switching of keyboard layouts is very annoying...
Customer support service by UserEcho
Actually this has been fixed in 2.1