Strange characters when copying from APu

[Joachim_L]

The moderators should feel free to remove this post if Serif is not to blame.

Yesterday I copied some text from APu and pasted it into the JCE Editor from Joomla. Everything looked good so far on various destop browser, but in Chrome for Android several crossed rectangles appeared at the end of the text.

EDIT/FOUND OUT: Obviously these were the paragraph breaks. Some editors had no problems, some editors had problems. Seems to be that APu is behaving correctly.

[walt.farrell]

Paragraph breaks copied from Publisher are an odd combination of Unicode characters. For example, copying across a paragraph break in Publisher and pasting into Notepad++ I see this:

[Alfred]

12 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Paragraph breaks copied from Publisher are an odd combination of Unicode characters. For example, copying across a paragraph break in Publisher and pasting into Notepad++ I see this:

What’s so odd about PS (Paragraph Separator) characters for a paragraph break?

[Joachim_L]

6 minutes ago, Alfred said:

What’s so odd about PS (Paragraph Separator) characters for a paragraph break?

Not breaking for instance? If I understand Walt's example correct.

[Old Bruce]

18 minutes ago, Alfred said:

What’s so odd about PS (Paragraph Separator) characters for a paragraph break?

it isn't odd so much as rather rare. New Line and Line Return are far more common, Paragraph Separator is a late comer to the party and is not recognized by text editors.

[Joachim_L]

12 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Paragraph Separator is a late comer to the party and is not recognized by text editors

Sad. One of the reasons why do not have the option for exporting the text from APu?

[lacerto]

(...)

[Dan C]

21 minutes ago, Lagarto said:

An option would be nice!

I can confirm I've already logged this with our developers:

"Improvement - Add an export option to convert PSEP and LSEP to ASCII newlines"

This would remove the characters from the text, and stop these icons being shown in applications that do not support Unicode PSEP & LSEP characters

[Pšenda]

6 hours ago, Dan C said:

to ASCII newlines

Hopefully it will be possible to use all standard termination types, ie CRLF (Windows), CR (Classic Mac), LF (Unix).

[Old Bruce]

5 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

Hopefully it will be possible to use all standard termination types, ie CRLF (Windows), CR (Classic Mac), LF (Unix).

I still fling my left hand up to smack the monitor sometimes. Do not miss the old manual typewriter.

[h_d]

Bring out the Tippex.

[Old Bruce]

12 minutes ago, h_d said:

Bring out the Tippex.

Whiteout here on the Left Coast of Canada, and I do get tired of throwing out monitors every couple of months.

[h_d]

33 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

throwing out monitors

Turn them upside down. Gives them a new lease of life.

[stinkykong]

Is there an estimated time for a fix on this? It's a real problem.

[Chris Christner]

Chiming in on this. Publisher is including unicode L SEP and P SEP characters in copied text that remain in the text (invisibly of course!) when pasted into an HTML editor using the Paste and Match Style command. And then they pop up randomly when viewed in browsers. Right now it's Microsoft Edge where they show up.