Missing apostrophe in clipboarddata - bug?

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cvandyke
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Missing apostrophe in clipboarddata - bug?

Post by cvandyke » Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:02 pm

I'm attempting to allow for copying stylized text from Microsoft Word into a field in a stack. So far, any text I copy from Word loses all apostrophe's when checked via:

clipboardData["text"]
clipboardData["HTML"]
clipboardData["unicode"]
clipboardData["RTF"] (at least as far as I can tell).

Note that the missing apostrophes are the closing, curled type (i.e. HTML entity ’) not the "straight" kind (i.e. ').

The problem occurs in both Revolution 2.9.0 and 2.8.1 in Windows XP. Data was copied from MS Word 2003 and does paste as expected in other applications. The Mac OS X Revolution versions works as expected.

Can anyone confirm this bug? Any suggested work arounds?

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