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Bug 6174 - Copy and paste French accents from Mac apps.
Summary: Copy and paste French accents from Mac apps.
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Amaya
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Editing (show other bugs)
Version: 10.1-pre5
Hardware: Macintosh MacOS X
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Vatton
QA Contact: Vatton
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Reported: 2008-10-20 19:49 UTC by Pascal Pignard
Modified: 2009-05-24 10:11 UTC (History)
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Description Pascal Pignard 2008-10-20 19:49:56 UTC 
Hello.
I've copied and paste the following text in Mac app TextEdit.
Then the French accent are represented with their UTF8 codes instead of corresponding characters:

Amaya s'adapte à vos besoins : cinq profils sont fournis avec différents ensembles de menus et de barres d'outils. Voir les Préférences. 
Amaya s'adapte à vos besoins : cinq profils sont fournis avec différents ensembles de menus et de barres d'outils. Voir les Préférences.

Hope this help.
Comment 1 Vatton 2008-10-22 07:48:29 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Hello.
> I've copied and paste the following text in Mac app TextEdit.
> Then the French accent are represented with their UTF8 codes instead of
> corresponding characters:
> 
> Amaya s'adapte à vos besoins : cinq profils sont fournis avec différents
> ensembles de menus et de barres d'outils. Voir les Préférences. 
> Amaya s'adapte √ vos besoins : cinq profils sont fournis avec
> différents ensembles de menus et de barres d'outils. Voir les
> Préférences.
> 
> Hope this help.
> 

Normally entities are used in source code when these characters are not defined in the used encoding. So there is normally no entities with UTF8.

I guess Mac app TextEdit generates in fact source code.
If you want to paste source code, you have to paste it in the source view and not in the formatted view.

It's exactly the same if you want to paste an example of html code in the formatted view <p>aaa</p>. It must be kept as this and not interpreted as a paragraph. If you paste in the source view, a new paragraph is added to the document.
Comment 2 Pascal Pignard 2008-11-01 20:46:51 UTC 
I understand the difference between the two explain modes.
Nevertheless I'm remembering some previous Amaya version where copy and paste from Mac apps was direct in the formatted view.
Let say the workaround works but is just a little bit annoying.
Is it not possible to come back to a more natural way ?
Thanks, Pascal.
Comment 3 Pascal Pignard 2008-12-19 09:58:11 UTC 
Hello.
Behaviour has changed in last Amaya version 11.
Copy and paste of French accent is now direct again in formated view.
Many thanks.