Cutting and Pasting special characters

Keywords:      clipget()  ClipGetEx(7)

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Question:

I'm trying to cut and paste french accented characters from one document to another using the following:

ClipData = ClipGet()
WinActivate("~Notepad")
SendKey(ClipData)

I have not been able to get this to work.

Answer:

Depends on the problem. What kind of problems are you getting?

1. Try sending Ctrl-v instead to paste to the clipboard.

   ClipData = ClipGet()
   WinActivate("~Notepad")
   SendKey("^v")
   

2. The major problem is the ANSI/ASCII character sets. You may need to convert the data between them. Maybe try the:

   ClipGetEx(7) 
   

   and see if that helps.

3. Can't paste special characters ! + ^ { ~

   Try...

   ClipData = ClipGetEx(7)
   WinActivate("~Notepad")
   ClipData=StrReplace(ClipData, "{", "{{}")
   ClipData=StrReplace(ClipData, "+", "{+}")
   ClipData=StrReplace(ClipData, "!", "{!}")
   ClipData=StrReplace(ClipData, "^", "{^}")
   ClipData=StrReplace(ClipData, "~", "{~}")
   SendKey(ClipData)
   

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Article ID:   W12746

Filename:   Pasting Special Chars from Clipboard.txt