#165 If ignoring whitespace, we get literal \Uffffffff\Uffffffff\Uffffffff

[Richard Neill]

If you have the "Ignore Whitespace Only" setting enabled, and then select some whitespace (possibly a mix of newlines, tabs, spaces, or just a space), then what I would expect Parcellite to do is to simply not add a new clipboard entry.

What it actually does is create a new entry containing e.g. "\Uffffffff\Uffffffffa\Uffffffff"
or similar variants (depending on exactly what's in the whitespace). This string beginning backslash-U is the literal string I see in the clipboard, and it's what gets pasted into my document.

The Unicode FFFFFFFF is -1, which presumably means some error has occurred.

I'm seeing this on Ubuntu Mate 22.04 (and 20.04), using parcellite 1.2.1-4

Thanks very much!

[rickyrockrat]

Yes, this is a known issue that I'm constantly annoyed with.