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After highlighted text under Linux, inserting with middle click only pastes a ☁ (U+2601) CLOUD character in Chrome
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Press "Reply" to some comment on e.g., https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:MobileFrontend
Now go to a Linux xterm window and highlight some text.
Now go back to the reply field and attempt to insert that text via middle click.
The result is just a ☁ U+2601 CLOUD character.

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No other input field has ever had this problem, no matter what page, what website, whatever.
Sure, you can say "well just use Paste in the browser's right click context menu."
The problem is not all text comes from browser "cut" operations.

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Jidanni created this task.Apr 6 2020, 11:15 PM
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Aklapper closed this task as Invalid.Apr 7 2020, 7:12 AM

@Jidanni: Cannot reproduce, works as expected for me.
(In the future, please set the correct project tag - thanks a lot!)

Aklapper added a comment.Apr 7 2020, 7:21 AM

gnome-terminal-3.34, firefox-74.0.1:

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Jidanni added a comment.EditedApr 7 2020, 9:28 PM

@Aklapper
Sure, works fine in firefox, but not:

$ chromium --temp-profile https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:MobileFrontend

Package: chromium
Version: 80.0.3987.162-1
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
IceWm

Aklapper renamed this task from Can't insert text with middle click to After highlighted text under Linux, inserting with middle click only pastes a ☁ (U+2601) CLOUD character in Chrome.Apr 7 2020, 11:36 PM
Aklapper reopened this task as Open.
Aklapper added a project: Browser-Support-Google-Chrome.

In that case, please follow https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug and provide browser information in your task description.

I can reproduce the problem with Chromium 80.

MBinder_WMF added a project: Growth-Team-Filtering.Apr 15 2021, 6:47 PM
Aklapper mentioned this in T368598: Pasting into text styling on VisualEditor turns it into a cloud character.Jun 27 2024, 9:32 AM
Esanders subscribed.Feb 4 2025, 12:08 PM

Is this still reproduceable?

Jidanni closed this task as Resolved.Feb 15 2025, 7:28 AM
In T249569#10520624, @Esanders wrote:

Is this still reproduceable?

No. Just tried and all is OK now. So I'll close it.

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