Comments on: Clipboard access from shell (utf-8)

By: Command-line Tools for the Clipboard - George V. Reilly's Technical Blog

Command-line Tools for the Clipboard - George V. Reilly's Technical Blog — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:23:16 +0000

[...] mentioned in my post on reStructuredText that I use a little command-line tool, pbcopy, to pipe the output into the clipboard. I finally found a similar tool for Linux, [...]

By: Darick

Darick — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:40:46 +0000

I spent hours trying to figure out why this wouldn't work. Thanks for your help. I was able to put the export __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING command inside an applescript "do shell script" command and fix all my problems.

By: Carl Johnson

Carl Johnson — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 03:30:09 +0000

I found that pbpaste was giving me Shift-JIS, so I just resorted to dumping it into a file and iconv, but your program is way handier. Thanks!

By: Allan Odgaard

Allan Odgaard — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:52:53 +0000

Maybe I spoke to soon.

Seems that when the encoding is set, an exception is thrown from setValue:forKey:.

Here's a simple example. Compile and run from shell (with encoding set) and I get:

2005-10-12 15:48:25.730 a.out[5733] *** Uncaught exception:  Conversion to cString failed for string "test"

By: Allan Odgaard

Allan Odgaard — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:41:45 +0000

Oh, very very nice! Thanks!

By: Brian Foley

Brian Foley — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:41:43 +0000

Assuming your UNIX uid is 501 (hex 1f5), adding the following to your .profile makes pbcopy & pbpaste default to using UTF8.

# Make CFString use UTF8 as default encoding
# (Handy for pbcopy/pbpaste which uses defaultCStringEncoding)
export __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0x8000100:0x8000100