Re: [whatwg] Unicode -> ASCII copy/paste fallback

Sorry, David & Mathias. Hasty 6:00am reply here before my brain and eyes
fully woke up!

Interesting question. Personally, I would expect and desire the
CSS-generated content to be copied.

Sincerely,
   James M. Greene
On Feb 13, 2015 6:24 AM, "David Sheets" <kosmo.zb@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 12:18 PM, James M. Greene
> <james.m.greene@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In this case, you can use Unicode escape values by preceding them with a
> > slash:
> >
> >   .rarr:after { content: "\2192"; }
> >
> >
> > This is specified in the CSS 2.1 spec:
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html#characters
> >
> > Personally, I probably would've just started on StackOverflow with this
> > question (e.g. [1]) but no harm done.
>
> Hi James!
>
> Sorry, I wasn't clear. The issue is not with putting Unicode values
> into CSS. The issue is that I would like unicode values to be copied
> and pasted as a specific ASCII fallback value.
>
> That is, I would like the equivalent of "a &rarr; b" to appear on a
> page but, upon copying, "a -> b" to show up in the clipboard.
>
> I have a solution that works in Firefox 36 (described in original
> mail). Chrome 40 does not behave similarly.
>
> I can see some arguments for Chrome's behavior along security lines. I
> certainly can understand the utility of Firefox's behavior because I
> am writing a documentation generation tool for a programming language
> with right arrows represented as -> but would like to render them as
> →.
>
> This seems like a pretty straightforward document feature but I can't
> seem to get interoperable behavior (or even find where such behavior
> might be specified).
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
> >
> > [1]:
> >
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10393462/placing-unicode-character-in-css-content-value
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >     James Greene
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 5:45 AM, David Sheets <kosmo.zb@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have a page with
> >>
> >> a <span class="rarr"><span>-&gt;</span></span> b
> >>
> >> and style
> >>
> >> .rarr span { overflow: hidden; height: 0; width: 0; display:
> inline-block;
> >> }
> >> .rarr::after { content: "→"; }
> >>
> >> (That's RIGHTWARDS ARROW x2192.)
> >>
> >> In Firefox 36, this copies and pastes like "a -> b" which is the
> >> desired behavior. In Chrome 40, this copies and pastes like "a  b".
> >>
> >> Is my desired behavior (to show unicode but copy an ASCII
> >> representation) generally possible? Are there specs somewhere about
> >> copy/paste behavior? I looked in <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/> but
> >> found nothing relevant.
> >>
> >> Is this the right venue for this question? Should I take it somewhere
> >> else?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> David Sheets
> >
> >
>

Received on Friday, 13 February 2015 12:30:56 UTC