Bug 3187 - Clipboard sync only supports plain text
Summary: Clipboard sync only supports plain text
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: ThinLinc
Classification: Unclassified
Component: VNC (show other bugs)
Version: 2.1.0
Hardware: PC All
: P2 Enhancement
Target Milestone: LowPrio
Assignee: Peter Åstrand
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Depends on: 7197 3895
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Reported: 2009-06-17 14:08 CEST by Pierre Ossman
Modified: 2024-07-31 12:41 CEST (History)
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Description Pierre Ossman cendio 2009-06-17 14:08:38 CEST 
The VNC clipboard is currently limited to ISO 8859-1 text. This is insufficient in many instances so we should extend it to support any type of clipboard data.

We should model it after the X11 clipboard which is a very nice design and one that avoids sending too much data needlessly over the network.
Comment 1 Pierre Ossman cendio 2011-11-02 09:28:33 CET 
UltraVNC has an encoding named "EnhancedClipboard". Might be worth checking out.
Comment 3 Pierre Ossman cendio 2016-01-18 12:26:41 CET 
(In reply to comment #1)
> UltraVNC has an encoding named "EnhancedClipboard". Might be worth checking
> out.

I had a look at this and it is unfortunately a bit simplistic. It might be enough to get decent unicode support (bug 3895), but will probably fall short of providing a complete clipboard system.
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