Pasting into text styling on VisualEditor turns it into a cloud character
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	dom_walden
	Jun 27 2024, 8:50 AM

Description

What is the problem?

If I copy and paste something into bold, italic, etc. in VisualEditor, whatever I paste is turned into the character ☁ (cloud).

I have seen this happen with bold, italic, code, underline, big, small and with a wide variety of pasted content (except URLs).

Steps to reproduce problem

Copy foo into your clipboard
Open an empty VE instance (MW or standalone)
Press ctrl+b or ctrl+i, or select bold/italic from the text dropdown
Paste with ctrl+v

Expected behaviour: You see foo in bold.
Observed behaviour: You see ☁.

Environment

Browser: Firefox 115, Chromium 120.
Wiki(s): https://wishlist-test.toolforge.org

Screenshots

Example trying to paste "foo" as bold: F55912885

Details

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Update VE core submodule to master (65e885e43)	mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor	master	+1 -1
	ve.ce.Surface: Don't modify model selection while pasting	VisualEditor/VisualEditor	master	+4 -1

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Related Objects

Mentioned Here: T60138: VisualEditor: If copying from one VE instance to another, on pasting the result has a ☁ inserted too
T249569: After highlighted text under Linux, inserting with middle click only pastes a ☁ (U+2601) CLOUD character in Chrome
T321027: Pasting with pre-annotations set does not insert text, sometimes inserts a cloud emoji (☁)

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dom_walden created this task.Jun 27 2024, 8:50 AM

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TheresNoTime subscribed.Jun 27 2024, 9:06 AM

cf T249569: After highlighted text under Linux, inserting with middle click only pastes a ☁ (U+2601) CLOUD character in Chrome, T321027: Pasting with pre-annotations set does not insert text, sometimes inserts a cloud emoji (☁), T60138: VisualEditor: If copying from one VE instance to another, on pasting the result has a ☁ inserted too

Ladsgroup subscribed.Jun 27 2024, 9:57 AM

• JWheeler-WMF moved this task from New & TBD Tickets to Darwin's Fox (July 15-26, 2024) on the Community-Tech board.Jul 12 2024, 3:13 PM

• JWheeler-WMF edited projects, added Community-Tech (Darwin's Fox (July 15-26, 2024)); removed Community-Tech.

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• JWheeler-WMF moved this task from New & TBD Tickets to Darwin's Fox (July 15-26, 2024) on the Community-Tech board.Jul 12 2024, 3:13 PM

• JWheeler-WMF edited projects, added Community-Tech (Darwin's Fox (July 15-26, 2024)); removed Community-Tech.

CommTech should not work on this, as it is a bug in VE.

• JWheeler-WMF closed this task as Declined.Jul 12 2024, 3:59 PM

Since this is a valid bug report, I reopened it but removed the CommTech tag, feel free to unsubscribe.

Esanders added a subscriber: dchan.Jul 15 2024, 10:10 AM

Esanders updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 4 2025, 10:30 AM

The issue here is cleanupUnicorns (which are inserted when you press ctrl+b). This happens in the middle of the paste cycle, stealing focus from the ClipboardHandler, and so not allowing content to be pasted into it.

Change #1117151 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):

[VisualEditor/VisualEditor@master] ve.ce.Surface: Don't modify model selection while pasting

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1117151

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Feb 4 2025, 10:51 AM

This is a semi-regression from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/VisualEditor/VisualEditor/+/812093, as before that patch the text would paste plain (not respecting the insertion annotation).

Esanders merged a task: T321027: Pasting with pre-annotations set does not insert text, sometimes inserts a cloud emoji (☁).Feb 4 2025, 12:06 PM

Esanders updated the task description. (Show Details)

Esanders added subscribers: Catrope, ppelberg.

Change #1117151 merged by jenkins-bot:

[VisualEditor/VisualEditor@master] ve.ce.Surface: Don't modify model selection while pasting

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1117151

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Feb 20 2025, 6:31 PM

Change #1121610 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Update VE core submodule to master (65e885e43)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1121610

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Feb 21 2025, 12:19 PM

Change #1121610 merged by jenkins-bot: