chat inserts invisible unicode 200B on empty lines that and causes some trouble
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Description
I use keybase freqently and discovered that if I send a chat message like
"Hi there
its me"
and copy the text to clipboard and then paste. (or on mac run: pbpaste | less)
You will get a extra 0x200B (zero-size-space) character on every empty line from the chat.
Its hardly visible in most scenarios and cause trouble when pasted into config files or code.
Is new-line not enough?
best
Jonas
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Research direction
Reproduce the issue in the chat client by sending a message with an empty line, copying it, and inspecting the clipboard output with pbpaste | less. Trace the chat-to-clipboard path responsible for empty lines; done means pasted text no longer contains U+200B characters on those lines, while ordinary line breaks remain intact.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100