Fixed - Lister: in Explorer Preview mode the Copy menu copies UTF-8 text as ANSI

Horst.Epp · Post by *Horst.Epp » 2021-04-28, 17:38 UTC

Usher wrote: 2021-04-28, 17:10 UTC
@Horst.Epp
Horst, do you have "Share with" submenu?

Horst.Epp wrote: 2021-04-28, 15:56 UTCThere are preview handlers which have context menu functions like the .eml preview handler but the Microsoft text preview handler has no context menu at all, so you can't copy text from it.
That's your paraphrase of my second suggestion - repeat tests for more specific text files.

Not a "Share with" but "Share"

Slavic · Post by *Slavic » 2021-04-28, 18:42 UTC

Usher wrote: 2021-04-28, 17:10 UTC That's exactly what I have asked. Now I'd like to see content of 3 submenus…

Open with: Image: https://prnt.sc/127oe5d
Share with: Image: https://prnt.sc/127oehu
Send to: Image: https://prnt.sc/127of16

What next would you like to see?

Usher · Post by *Usher » 2021-04-29, 00:56 UTC

2Slavic
What about testing Explorer Preview for other formatted text files (html, css, js, c, cpp, etc.)?
And questions about your screenshots: What is "Text editor"? Can you uninstall it?

Slavic · Post by *Slavic » 2021-04-29, 06:43 UTC

The text editor is PSPad which I use sometimes for HTML editing. It isn't set as default program for *.txt, *.htm or any other file type, I open it in context menu when need. I can uninstall it, of course, but it isn't installed on my laptop where this bug is reproduced the same way.

testcyr8.htm - save in Notepad as UTF-8

Code: Select all

<html>
<body>
<p>Кириллический текст UTF-8.</p>
</body>
</html>

testcyr8.css

Code: Select all

/* Примечание - Remark */
html, body {color: black; background-color: white;}

The *.css test works quite similar to *.txt, while *.htm has some difference because it's opened in system HTML preview. It has a context menu with Copy and Select all (text preview doesn't have this menu); mouse selection works here too. Unsurprisingly, UTF-8 is copied by handlers perfectly in both cases, unlike a copy via the main Lister menu.

Usher, you should have noticed that I answered almost all your questions. It took a lot of efforts for testing, creating and uploading the screenshots and writing the replies here. But you still haven't performed even the first simple (very simple!) test on your TC, which would take no more than 2-3 min, because of other activities you are busy in... You did not it, as well as Horst.Epp, even though the reproducibility of bugreport by other testers would be very important. Is it fair?

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2021-04-29, 09:05 UTC

I found the problem: When you use the menu "Select all", it selects the text representation of the file, not what the preview handler shows. The menu option "Copy to clipboard" then copies that text version.

The solution is to send Ctrl+A/Ctrl+C to the preview handler window via keybd_event (simulated keyboard input).

Usher · Post by *Usher » 2021-04-29, 15:35 UTC

Slavic wrote: 2021-04-29, 06:43 UTC Usher, you should have noticed that I answered almost all your questions. It took a lot of efforts for testing, creating and uploading the screenshots and writing the replies here. But you still haven't performed even the first simple (very simple!) test on your TC

I have already written what I can do:

Usher wrote: 2021-04-28, 11:17 UTC I don't use Windows 8.x, so I can only suspect some things.

Explorer Preview in Windows XP is very limited, it doesn't work for txt files (without shell extensions). Currently I have no possibility to test TC in other systems. I was asking in hope that other users could say something more helpful basing on my suggestions.

Slavic · Post by *Slavic » 2021-04-29, 17:36 UTC

Fixed in beta 8: Lister menu sends Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C to external handler like keyboard commands; the handler works with UTF-8 correctly.
Thanks!

Limitation: it doesn't work for HTML handler (for *.htm files) because that handler doesn't accept keyboard commands. It uses its own context menu instead. As a result, Lister menu commands do nothing, no any bug happens.

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Usher, I understood now the limitation of Windows XP you use, so asking you for testing would have little sense. I didn't perform any tests on XP long ago because I don't have such PC both at home and workplace. Well, testing on XP may be useful in other cases, showing the bugs which don't happen on later systems like my one.

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