win32utils devel - Jul 2011 - Fwd: [win32-clipboard] ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII when copying from clipboard (#1)

Bug posted by Max Mitchell on github for win32-clipboard. Suggestions?

---
If I have the following copied into my Windows clipboard: `Hello world, 
?12 is the cost` and I try to access the clipboard:

```ruby
require ''rubygems''
require ''win32/clipboard''
include Win32

c = Clipboard.data
```
... I get an `ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII` from 
line 123 in `clipboard.rb` caused by using the pound symbol. If I try 
force the clipboard to read as Unicode it gives the same error. Is there 
a way to read in these characters/the full clipboard?

I''m using the following:

* Windows XP
* Ruby 1.9.2p180 (2011-02-18)
* win32/clipboard 0.5.2

Hi,

2011/7/15 Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com>
> Bug posted by Max Mitchell on github for win32-clipboard. Suggestions?
>
> ---
> If I have the following copied into my Windows clipboard: `Hello world, ?12
> is the cost` and I try to access the clipboard:
>
> ```ruby
> require ''rubygems''
> require ''win32/clipboard''
> include Win32
>
> c = Clipboard.data
> ```
> ... I get an `ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII` from line
> 123 in `clipboard.rb` caused by using the pound symbol. If I try force the
> clipboard to read as Unicode it gives the same error. Is there a way to
read
> in these characters/the full clipboard?
>
> I''m using the following:
>
> * Windows XP
> * Ruby 1.9.2p180 (2011-02-18)
> * win32/clipboard 0.5.2
>
>
I think the line # 123 of clipboard.rb
     clip_data = clip_data[ /^[^\0]*/ ]
should be replaced with
     clip_data = clip_data.chomp("\x00")


Regards,
Park Heesob
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Heesob Park <phasis at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2011/7/15 Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com>
>>
>> Bug posted by Max Mitchell on github for win32-clipboard. Suggestions?
>>
>> ---
>> If I have the following copied into my Windows clipboard: `Hello world,
>> ?12 is the cost` and I try to access the clipboard:
>>
>> ```ruby
>> require ''rubygems''
>> require ''win32/clipboard''
>> include Win32
>>
>> c = Clipboard.data
>> ```
>> ... I get an `ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII` from
line
>> 123 in `clipboard.rb` caused by using the pound symbol. If I try force
the
>> clipboard to read as Unicode it gives the same error. Is there a way to
read
>> in these characters/the full clipboard?
>>
>> I''m using the following:
>>
>> * Windows XP
>> * Ruby 1.9.2p180 (2011-02-18)
>> * win32/clipboard 0.5.2
>>
>
> I think the line # 123 of clipboard.rb
> ? ? ?clip_data = clip_data[ /^[^\0]*/ ]
> should be replaced with
> ? ? ?clip_data = clip_data.chomp("\x00")
I tried that, but it seemed to cause other test failures. I did update
the test file to explicitly set the encoding to utf-8. Perhaps that
was a mistake?

Regards,

Dan