[GNC] clip board paste across catagories

Adrien Monteleone adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net
Wed Sep 30 23:35:43 EDT 2020


I could be wrong, but I think the point was missed that if that is an 
export from Calc, and it reads it *back in* correctly, John is wondering 
why you think it wouldn't. That is, Calc exported it that way in the 
first place, so you say, thus Calc should be able to read it back in. 
(admittedly, this is not guaranteed, but one would reasonably expect an 
output format to be also readable as an input format)

I also noticed that there are clearly different 'quoted forms' there.

Specifically, 'inch' dimensions are notated with (right double quotation 
mark, Unicode 201D, or UTF8 E2809D) and 'foot' dimensions are notated 
with (left single quotation mark, Unicode 2018, UTF8 E28098), neither of 
which are clearly 'quotation mark' Unicode 0022, UTF8 22; nor 
'apostrophe' Unicode 0027, UTF8 27, both of which are standard ASCII 
fare from a standard keyboard.

When you import to Calc, you get an option to declare 'quoted strings as 
text' and the delimiter, which by default is, if I recall correctly, 
'quotation mark' or U+0022, UTF8 22.

So it is no surprise that Calc recognized actual different glyphs 
differently.

Perhaps your OS/UI or font choice is presenting them all the same or 
with little typographical distinction, which is why you are amazed Calc 
is getting it 'right'.

But I can clearly see that the 'inch' and 'feet' dimension symbols are 
different than the string delimiters.

Of course, they still aren't the typographically correct glyphs, those 
would be prime and double-prime, for feet and inches respectively, but 
Calc would see either 'correctly' with respect to recognizing them as 
different characters, which they in fact, are.

Regards,
Adrien

On 9/30/20 8:25 PM, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote:
> On 2020-09-30 17:40, John Ralls wrote:

>> Of course it does. Why wouldn't it?
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
> 
> It would be a wonderful world if all software worked properly.
> It is great the Calc read it correctly



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