Re: Using copy/paste from pgAdmin 4 - getting <U+FEFF> character

Hi Matthew,

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 12:11 AM, Matthew Dahlman <matt(dot)dahlman(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hello,
> pgAdmin is not behaving as I would like it to in one respect. I'd like to
> understand if this is a bug.
>
> I'm having trouble using copy/paste from pgAdmin 4. The symptom is that I
> get the character (Zero Width No-break Space ) aka <U+FEFF> prepended to
> any string I copy.
>
> The workaround is to paste and then delete that first character. But in
> practice this is cumbersome.
> Question 1: can anyone help me to prevent the FEFF character from
> sneaking into the clipboard whenever I copy anything in pgAdmin?
>
> Question 2: Should I log this as a bug? A feature request? Don't log it?
> (Sorry, "question 2" contains 3 questions.)
>
> I'm using Mac OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan) with pgAdmin 2.1 using
> Python 2.7.10 (default, Jul 30 2016, 19:40:32).
>
> This issue has already been reported by another user.
It has been fixed and will be available in the next release which is going
to be soon.

Ref: https://redmine.postgresql.org/issues/2980

> Thanks for any guidance,
> Matt
>
> P.S. Yesterday I could not find this group, so I posted my question here:
> https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/199644/pgadmin-4-
> including-ufeff-in-all-copied-strings
> Andriy M suggests that this is probably intended behavior. But I'm hoping
> it's at least configurable somehow.
>

Thanks,
Khushboo