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Bug: Cutting and pasting special characters


nirvanagold

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When cutting and pasting special characters (I have checked angled brackets and ampersands), they do not cut as expected, but rather as their underlying HTML-encoded entities. For example:

  • A cut "<" pastes as "&lt;"
  • A cut "&" pastes as "&amp;"

I usually have three fonts available in my menu: Arial, Courier New and Helvetica Neue. I'm not exactly sure why it's these three, or if it's easy/possible to add more, but depending on where my cursor is, sometimes Arial is not listed! Anyway, I notice the above issue occurs for Courier New and Helvetica Neue, but not for Arial. It seems like it shouldn't really happen, regardless of which font is used.

I notice it is the cutting at fault, because a character cut from Arial pastes as expected into a paragraph using Courier New, say. But not so vice-versa. "Paste and Match Style" makes no difference.

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1 hour ago, nirvanagold said:

When cutting and pasting special characters (I have checked angled brackets and ampersands), they do not cut as expected, but rather as their underlying HTML-encoded entities

Some question to help narrow/clarify the issue:

  1. What versions of EN Mac and macOS are you running?
  2. Does this always occur, whether in a new Note you manually typed or in a note created from the web clipper?
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Hi there and thanks for your comment.

Evernote Version 6.13.3 (455969 Direct) Editor: 1.30.3433 (fec246b).

I just tried clipping this page: https://www.freeformatter.com/html-entities.html

When clipped as "Full page" or "Article" the note ends up all being set in Helvetica Neue and when I copy and paste a symbol it is indeed pasted as its HTML entity, not as the symbol. However, when I clip it as "Simplified article" then the font is Arial and the issue does not occur.

I wonder if you can shed any light on how, and which, fonts appear in the menu at all actually, because I do see some inconsistency there. I seem to recall something about Evernote using the "Web" collection of FontBook but I'm not sure if that is still the case - there's nothing in that collection on my Mac.

Still seems this probably shouldn't happen for any font.

 

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