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Cutting and Pasting special characters 

Keywords:      clipget()  ClipGetEx(7)

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, "~", "{~}")
ClipData=StrReplace(ClipData, "%%", "%%%%")
SendKey(ClipData)

Article ID:   W12746

Filename:   Pasting Special Chars from Clipboard.txt
File Created: 2006:12:21:16:02:14
Last Updated: 2006:12:21:16:02:14