This issue has been migrated from old Barrier Github repository debauchee/barrier#1037

Issue created on: 2021-01-26 by @devz3r0
Issue last updated on: 2021-11-03

Describe the bug
Chinese text pasted into second device, similar as here:
https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/issues/316

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to a website on a linux pc
2. Copy text over multiple tables of the site
3. paste text into attached windows PC
4. See text:
   慟彸慣汬楟彮慴汢彥捳灯⡥〧䰵Ⱗ攠敶瑮‬爧睯敓敬瑣摥Ⱗ〠∩㰾摴㰾灳湡㰾猯慰㹮⼼摴㰾摴㰾灳湡ㄾ㘶〴㈰⼼灳湡㰾琯㹤琼㹤猼慰㹮䍁㈺㨲㔰㌺㩂〳䌺㰲猯慰㹮⼼摴㰾琯㹲⼼扴摯㹹⼼慴汢㹥⼼灳湡㰾猯慰㹮

Expected behavior
copied text, on the second time it works

Screenshots

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: [e.g. Windows]
• Client: Windows 10, 19.03 Barrier 2.3.3 english
• Server: Manjaro Linux (latest update) Barrier version 2.3.3 DE: KDE Plasma 5.20.5 german

Additional context

Add any other context about the problem here.

Commented on: 2021-08-17 by @vrf888

The same happens when copying from Windows to macOS

Commented on: 2021-08-19 by @thefinalwolf

@vrf888 Same here
For me, it works when pasting to something like Notes on OSX. I've noticed it depends on the app I'm pasting to.
Although, I have to restart Barrier on both OSX and Windows often to get paste to even work.

Commented on: 2021-08-20 by @yan12125

This seems an encoding issue. HTML data sent from Linux to Windows is encoded as UTF-8, while it should be UTF-16. The original can be inspected with Python

>>> '慟彸慣汬楟彮慴汢彥捳灯⡥〧䰵Ⱗ攠敶瑮爧睯敓敬瑣摥Ⱗ〠∩㰾摴㰾灳湡㰾猯慰㹮⼼摴㰾摴㰾灳湡ㄾ㘶〴㈰⼼灳湡㰾琯㹤琼㹤猼慰㹮䍁㈺㨲㔰㌺㩂〳䌺㰲猯慰㹮⼼摴㰾琯㹲⼼扴摯㹹⼼慴汢㹥⼼灳湡㰾猯慰㹮'.encode('utf-16')
b'\xff\xfe_ax_call_in_table_scope(\'05L\', event, \'rowSelected\', 0)"><td><span></span></td><td><span>1664002</span></td><td><span>AC:22:05:3B:30:C2</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span>'

Commented on: 2021-08-20 by @yan12125

I borrowed a fix from Synergy and sent #1254. Note that the fix is for Linux. The issue between Windows and macOS is most likely a different issue and requires a separate fix. I don't have macOS so I cannot test it.

Closed on: 2021-11-03 by @p12tic