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Paste (Ctrl+V) does not work on Windows

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Description

### Describe the bug

Tested in Powershell 5.1 and Powershell 7.

Ctrl+V does not paste the text from the clipboard. RMB doesn't work as well (yesterday it did not work at all, but now RMB just pastes some gibberish see pic. 1)

pic. 1
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The only way to paste the text is to use (icon)->Edit->Paste:
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### Affected version

GitHub Copilot CLI 0.0.418.

### Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Copy some text, e.g. "Text".
2. Open `copilot` on Windows in Powershell.
3. Press Ctrl+V.

### Expected behavior

"Text" appears in the prompt textbox.

### Additional context

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