Yes I also was thinking that, being the first two chars not valid (\0xff and \0xfe), the problem is that I cannot find a reference to understand what is the encoding according to those chars. Looking on the html of the webpage it tells utf-8 but probably then firefox uses another to fill the clipboard.
Regards, Giuseppe. On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Dieter Verfaillie < diet...@optionexplicit.be> wrote: > On 12/01/2011 16:03, Giuseppe Penone wrote: > > Yes it's mozilla firefox. > > I tried with > > > > input_string.decode("utf-16", "ignore") > > > > but what I get is > > > > 猼慰瑳汹㵥昢湯楳敺›㌱┰∻㰾灳湡猠祴敬∽潣潬㩲爠摥∻㰾灳湡猠祴敬∽潣潬㩲戠慬正∻䐾㑅䡇‱❈ㅄ☧‹䥁✠❄⼵ㄧ✠ⱄ䨯 > > 䔪✠䐵ⴧ⠠㘹✠㥄䑄䠠䔪㤠䑅⼼灳湡㰾猯慰㹮⼼灳湡 > > Never had a need for it myself, but I've stumbled over this a couple > of times: the tuple returned by clipboard.wait_for_targets() seems to > contain a hint to the encoding of the data. At least in the case where > you copied from a mozilla application (firefox/thunderbird/maybe > others). > > hth, > Dieter >
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