Bug #2119: Clipper doesn't copy UTF-8 correctly

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1. Greg Hurrell 2013-11-03T02:12:11Z

   Thanks for the report. Looks like this only happens when run as a Launch Agent. I suspect the cause is no LANG environment variable being set, causing pbcopy to revert to default C encoding (see the pbcopy man page).

   We might be able to get around this by tweaking the launchd plist file to set an appropriate LANG setting.

2. Greg Hurrell 2013-11-03T02:25:27Z

   Yep, looks like you can get it to work by modifying the plist, adding a section like:

   diff --git a/com.wincent.clipper.plist b/com.wincent.clipper.plist
   index d37bb09..921eb1d 100644
   --- a/com.wincent.clipper.plist
   +++ b/com.wincent.clipper.plist
   @@ -12,6 +12,11 @@
                   <string>--port</string>
                   <string>8377</string>
           </array>
   +       <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
   +       <dict>
   +               <key>LANG</key>
   +               <string>en_US.UTF-8</string>
   +       </dict>
           <key>KeepAlive</key>
           <true/>
           <key>LimitLoadToSessionType</key>

   Where this file is depends on how you installed. If you installed using Homebrew, it's at /usr/local/Cellar/clipper/0.1/homebrew.mxcl.clipper.plist and you'll be able to fix things by stopping Clipper:

   $ launchctl unload /usr/local/Cellar/clipper/0.1/homebrew.mxcl.clipper.plist

   Editing the property list:

   $ vim /usr/local/Cellar/clipper/0.1/homebrew.mxcl.clipper.plist

   And restarting Clipper:

   $ launchctl load -w -S Aqua /usr/local/Cellar/clipper/0.1/homebrew.mxcl.clipper.plist

   If you installed it yourself, the steps are much the same but the property list most likely is at ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.wincent.clipper.plist.

   UTF-8 seems like a reasonable default — and it's what the pbcopy man page recommends — so I'll push an update to the Clipper repo that includes this in the sample plist file, and probably also a pull request to update the Homebrew recipe as well.

3. Greg Hurrell 2013-11-03T03:35:48Z

   0.2 is released, and here is the matching Homebrew pull request.

4. Greg Hurrell 2013-11-03T03:35:52Z

   Status changed:

   • From: new
   • To: closed

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