Opened 15 years ago
Last modified 9 years ago
#5221 closed defect
copy/paste from various clients to Mac host appends a NULL character to the text — at Initial Version
Reported by: | Mark Brighton | Owned by: | |
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Component: | clipboard | Version: | VirtualBox 3.0.8 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Guest type: | other | Host type: | Mac OS X |
Description
I've encountered this problem using Mac OS 10.6.1 as the host and a Windows XP Professional client with the Guest Additions installed. Another user encountered it with a Mac host and both Ubuntu and Solaris clients.
When I copy text inside the client and paste it in the host, a NULL character is appended to the text. This seems to be independent of the client and host apps involved.
In many cases, the NULL character goes unnoticed, but it has a disastrous effect in Thunderbird. Thunderbird truncates the message at the NULL character and all text after it is lost.
This was first described in the forums: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=23310