[python-win32] win32clipboard.SetClipboardData doesn't support Unicode

Vladimir Alexiev vladimir.alexiev at ontotext.com
Mon May 29 02:28:15 EDT 2023


Hi everyone!
I've posted https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/issues/2061 with full info
about the bug.
It uses the program listed at
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76175244/how-to-put-formatted-text-on-clipboard-with-python-and-avoid-conflict-with-ditto

I think the critical line is this:

win32clipboard.SetClipboardData(self.GetCfHtml(), src.encode('utf-8'))

The data is obtained from stdin and is already in UTF8
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