[sword-devel] Xiphos : copy'n'paste to facebook produces Chinese !

Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.ledkov at ubuntu.com
Thu May 6 05:03:07 MST 2010


On 6 May 2010 11:43, David Haslam <d.haslam at ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Has anyone else discovered this quirky behaviour?
>
> I copied a KJV verse from Xiphos direct to facebook, and it produced a whole
> lot of Chinese characters!
>
> Workaround: Copy first to a text editor, such as Notepad++, then select
> again for copy'n'paste.
>
> Xiphos team should explain what's going on!
>
> And perhaps consider providing a context menu option, "Copy as plain text".
>
> David

Xiphos copy-n-paste is done right. Make sure you are running all of
your applications in UTF-8 encoding and use normal web-browser. I'm
assuming you are using windows: install google chrome, firefox, opera
or safari and test with those browsers.



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