Cannot copy text containing emoji

By ja...@agilebits.com on July 30, 2014 16:29 (imported from Google Code)

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Insert emoji into iTerm2. Add some text after it also
2. Highlight all the text up to and including the emoji and after
3. Edit > Copy

What is the expected output?
Selected text is copied to clipboard

What do you see instead?
No emoji are copied. Sometimes, text up to the first emoji will be copied, but other times, the pasteboard is entirely empty.

What version of iTerm2 are you using?
2.0

What OS version are you using?
10.10 DP4 build 14A298i

Please provide any additional information below.

Terminal.app properly handles this. The emoji I was trying to copy were in the output from my Rails tests using mintiest-emoji gem: https://github.com/tenderlove/minitest-emoji I can work around the issue using What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Insert emoji into iTerm2. Add some text after it also
2. Highlight all the text up to and including the emoji and after
3. Edit > Copy

What is the expected output?
Selected text is copied to clipboard

What do you see instead?
No emoji are copied. Sometimes, text up to the first emoji will be copied, but other times, the pasteboard is entirely empty.

What version of iTerm2 are you using?
2.0

What OS version are you using?
10.10 DP4 build 14A298i

Please provide any additional information below.

Terminal.app properly handles this. The emoji I was trying to copy were in the output from my Rails tests using mintiest-emoji gem: https://github.com/tenderlove/minitest-emoji I can work around the issue using | pbcopyWhat steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Insert emoji into iTerm2. Add some text after it also
2. Highlight all the text up to and including the emoji and after
3. Edit > Copy

What is the expected output?
Selected text is copied to clipboard

What do you see instead?
No emoji are copied. Sometimes, text up to the first emoji will be copied, but other times, the pasteboard is entirely empty.

What version of iTerm2 are you using?
2.0

What OS version are you using?
10.10 DP4 build 14A298i

Please provide any additional information below.

Terminal.app properly handles this. The emoji I was trying to copy were in the output from my Rails tests using mintiest-emoji gem: https://github.com/tenderlove/minitest-emoji I can work around the issue using `| pbcopy but this doesn't include the contextual information of my command line prompt such as the path, git branch, and ruby version information.

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Comment 1 by gnach... on August 02, 2014 00:44

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Fixed in db6a382c

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Status: Fixed

I'm seeing a related issue in iTerm 2.1 on OSX 10.9.5.

Trying to copy several lines, when an emoji character is present in the output of at least one of the lines, will result in an empty paste.

Here's how to reproduce the issue:

  1)   $ echo "😱"
  2)   😱
  3)   $ echo "hello, world"
  4)   hello, world

Copy lines 1..4. The paste will be empty.

Double-click line 2 and copy. The paste will be empty.

Highlight and copy the output of line 2 (just the emoji character). The paste will be empty.

Try to highlight and copy the emoji character with surrounding quotes from line 1. The paste will succeed.

I've also noticed that attempting to "Save Selected Text" when emojis are present causes an error noise (bell character?) and the save fails.

Note to self: Possibly related to OS version?

Milestone changed to Ship 3.0

My copy+paste issue is fixed now in iTerm 2.1.1, probably by https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/3544.

Status changed to reopened

This was fixed in commit db6a382c

Status changed to closed