Running under WSL, when copying text, BOM is always prepended to any copied text segment
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Description
### Describe the bug
Running under WSL, when copying text, BOM (0xFEFF) is always prepended to any copied text segment.
e.g.
```
Then that strongly points to a Copilot CLI copy bug.
If it happens:
- only when copying from Copilot CLI output
- regardless of where the selection starts
- and always as a leading zero-width character
then the most likely explanation is that the UI/renderer is placing a hidden U+FEFF/BOM at the start of
copied selections.
So yes — based on what you described, I’d treat this as a bug in Copilot CLI’s copy/export behavior, not
in WSL or Bash.
```
### Affected version
GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.21.
### Steps to reproduce the behavior
1. Install ubuntu under WSL
2. Install homebrew
3. `brew install copilot-cli`
4. `copilot`
5. Highlight some text output from the copilot app
6. Right-click
7. Paste the output into an editor that shows zero-width characters
8. Text is prepended with 0XFEFF
### Expected behavior
Text is _not_ prepended with 0XFEFF
### Additional context
_No response_
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue under Ubuntu on WSL with GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.21, following the listed install and copy steps. Compare pasted selections for a leading U+FEFF character; done means copied text no longer begins with the BOM in an editor that displays zero-width characters.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- linux, shell, ubuntu
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100