Stripping styling from the clipboard...

[J. Landman Gay]

Using an intermediate text editor also works, and would take care of any 
UTF8 conversion too if that's causing issues. But since you're in LC 
already it might be more convenient to have a handler in a backscript or a 
plugin that would do it.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On June 24, 2018 9:07:59 AM Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Well that is a pain in the bum!
>
> I suppose I should go through an intermediate stage using a
> plain-vanilla text editor.
>
> Richmond.
>
> On 24/6/2018 8:19 am, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
>> It happens when a colorized handler is copied directly from the script
>> editor and pasted into a list response. The list only understands
>> plain text, and styled text confuses it. I'm not sure if it happens on
>> all platforms but we've seen it before in other posts.
>>
>> Brian's plaintext handler would come in handy here.
>>
>> --
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>> On June 23, 2018 9:25:34 PM Tom Glod via use-livecode
>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>>> sorry Paul...my bad.
>>>
>>> Richmond..... why does your code paste that way
>>
>>
>>
>>
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