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[Tom Crane <TPCkicad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2019, Seth Hillbrand wrote:

> 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

Hi Seth,
	I have reported it at https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1831890.

Thanks
Tom.
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Tom Crane, Dept. Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham Hill,
Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, England.
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