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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2019-06-05 13:31, Tom Crane wrote:
> I have had problems copying and pasting certain individual components,
> using the right-click method for both.  The symptom was no-effect when
> right-click pasting despite the paste menu item not being greyed out.
>
> Further investigation showed the components (eg. SM resistors) which
> would not copy&paste had top-bit-set characters in some of their
> fields whereas otherwise identical components without such characters
> copy&pasted OK. Here is an example of a problem component definition;

Hi Tom-

This is a curious issue and sounds like it might be internal to our 
string handling.  Could you please file a bug report at the bug tracker? 
 It will greatly assist our ability to keep track of the problem, the 
versions it affects and the resolution.

Thanks-
Seth