[SOLVED] Copying Unicode characters to the clipboard
lazarus / 31-LCL

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LRS · 2014-06-03 22:41

How are Unicode characters copied to the clipboard with Lazarus (in a
platform-independent way)? I have tried, on Fedora Linux with Lazarus
1.0.10

Code: [Select]Clipboard.AsText := MyUnicodeString;
but the Unicode characters become garbled in the clipboard.

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LRS · 2014-06-09 19:58

It seems there is something unique about my setup which is causing
this problem, because testing on a bunch of other platforms was
completely successful. Replicating my setup as best as possible in a
VirtualBox virtual machine did not reproduce the problem. Since it's
unlikely to affect many of the users of my app, it's no longer a
priority, but it would be nice to know what's causing it and (or just)
how to solve it. More details on my setup in case anybody has any
ideas:

Fedora 20, 64 bit, running on an ASUS laptop, with all packages up to
date (i.e. running "yum update" results in "No packages marked for
update")KDE desktop (works fine when I run it under the GNOME desktop
on the same machine)Lazarus 1.0.10 (but running a version of my app
built in a virtual machine with Lazarus 1.2.2 doesn't fix the problem)

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LRS · 2014-06-09 22:37

Solved by upgrading to Lazarus 1.2.2. Why I didn't try that at the
start I don't know. Sorry for the waste of bandwidth.