Gilescooperuk Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 OK I started with an article written in Publisher and wanted to use the text to go onto a website. So into the article and Cmd-C, swap to Smultron and Cmd-V. It looks fine in the text editor but when I open a preview there are lots of junk characters. It looks like the text is copied with a lot of formatting codes for commas, Start of lines, end of lines etc. I would have thought the copy would just be plain text work going to other programs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 The Copy operation probably puts multiple formats into the clipboard. When you paste, perhaps you have a choice of what format is pasted? Look for Edit > Paste Special or something like that in your text editor. But I think your problem is really that you have the wrong encoding specified in your HTML metadata. Perhaps you have specified charset=iso-8859-1 or charset=ansi rather than charset=UTF-8? That's especially shown by the way that the apostrophe displays on the web page. Jon P 1 -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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