> Brief description: pasting unicode characters does not work
> Version: 7.6nc
> Severity: Low
> Fix: included
>
>
> I loaded the parcel AllEncodings into a "virgin" VWNC 7.6. The
> release notes for VW 7.6 say
>
> "First, open the workspace; you'll see a lot of black rectangles.
> Then load preview/unicode/AllEncodings.pcl and instantly the
> workspace will update to display all the unicode characters that you
> have loaded. You can copy and paste text, for example from MS Word
> to VW, without problems."
>
> The first part (display updating) works; the second part (copy/
> paste) however didn't completely work for me: Using the debugger, I
> verified that copying to the clipboard worked, but pasting (to a
> different workspace sheet or MS Word) didn't work. Debugging
> revealed that
>
>
> Screen>>getExternalSelectionIfEmpty: aBlock
> "Get the host selection as a String from the window system, or
> perform aBlock if none is available"
>
> ^(self getExternalSelection: nil) ifNil: aBlock
> ifNotNil: [:sel | IOAccessor convertStringFromPlatform: sel]
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>
> is the culprit. Changing the body to
>
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> ^(self getExternalSelection) ifNil: aBlock
> ifNotNil: [:sel | IOAccessor convertStringFromPlatform: sel]
>
> worked for me. In other words, one has to make sure that
> Screen>>getExternalSelection gets called (that's where the unicode
> stuff is) instead of Screen>>getExternalSelection: nil.
>
> Maybe someone else can verify this so Cincom can fix it; maybe it's
> just wrong on my computer...
>
> Mike
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