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#307157 24-Sep-2023 14:37

Recently I’ve found odd behaviour when copying and pasting text from websites to a variety of places.

Instead of “The quick brown fox “

I get “The%20quick%20brown%20fox”

I’m sure someone here will know why. It doesn’t seem to be specific to where I copy from or where I paste to.

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#3131313 24-Sep-2023 14:53

Which Browser and OS are you using?

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#3131315 24-Sep-2023 15:00

Have you tried restarting your PC?

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#3131448 24-Sep-2023 19:06

It’s iOS 17 on Safari so far. Next time I notice it I’ll try the same copy and paste on the MBP.

I had thought it was just some internet related strangeness.

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#3131449 24-Sep-2023 19:08

%20 is the HTML entity code for a space... but it shouldn't just randomly show up when you copy and paste. Does it happen on all sites or just one (or a few)?

Edit: Maybe I should actually read your first post, which already answered that. Do you have any browser extensions installed?

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#3131452 24-Sep-2023 19:16

No I don’t think Safari on iOS allows you to install extensions.

It happened today (by way of example) when I copied something from Stuff and pasted it here.

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#3131454 24-Sep-2023 19:19

Geektastic: No I don’t think Safari on iOS allows you to install extensions.

It does. Copying from Safari to Geekzone is working correctly for me, so can you please check in Settings/Safari/Extensions and verify that you don't have any?

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#3131455 24-Sep-2023 19:34

Behodar:

%20 is the HTML entity code for a space... but it shouldn't just randomly show up when you copy and paste.

HTML encodes hex values in the form   (ASCII value 32 in decimal).

%20 would be used for URL encoding, where a space is invalid. Is the text part of a link, perhaps?

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#3131456 24-Sep-2023 19:34

Ah yes, you're quite right.