<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">15 okt. 2021 kl. 22:09 skrev John W Kennedy via Unicode <<a href="mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org" class="">unicode@corp.unicode.org</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 15, 2021, at 1:50 PM, Peter Constable via Unicode <<a href="mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org" class="">unicode@corp.unicode.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Unicode <<a href="mailto:unicode-bounces@corp.unicode.org" class="">unicode-bounces@corp.unicode.org</a>> on behalf of Kent Karlsson via Unicode <<a href="mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org" class="">unicode@corp.unicode.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Wednesday, October 13, 2021 at 10:39 AM</span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">…<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">>No, no, no. It is normal practice to copy text from a terminal emulator window to something else…<o:p class=""></o:p></p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Prompts, yes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">But do the terminals have symbols in UI affordances with symbols that can’t be selected and copied as text? No, to those.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div class="">Since you ask, line 25 on the IBM 3278-2 and other below-the-bottom lines on its many descendants. (The previous 3277 had three solid rectangles to the right of the right margin.)</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><font face="Calibri" class="">A little perplexed here. We were, or a t least I thought we were, talking about "selected and copied as text” (a.k.a. copy-(and-paste)).</font></span></div><div><font style="font-size: 15px;" face="Calibri" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div><font style="font-size: 15px;" face="Calibri" class="">For the physical devices called ”terminals”, that is just about impossible, since those basically became museum pieces before cut-and-paste was invented… (and cut-and-paste would not be practical for them anyway).</font></div><div><font style="font-size: 15px;" face="Calibri" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div><font style="font-size: 15px;" face="Calibri" class="">For terminal <i class="">emulators</i>, which are commonly used today, for Linux and other Unix-like systems like MacOSX, as well as Windows (well the NT-based ones (which includes current Windows systems), perhaps not the since long dead DOS-based ones), cut-and-paste of text, both <i class="">from</i> the terminal emulator to such things as Word documents (for notes), emails, and to ”chat” applications, as well as <i class="">to</i> a terminal emulator (usually a command, but often other text as well, e.g. when entering text to a terminal based text editor) from a Word document, Notepad++ document, email, or from a chat. That is <b class="">NORMAL EVERYDAY PRACTICE</b>.</font></div><div><font style="font-size: 15px;" face="Calibri" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div><font face="Calibri" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">I cannot tell how many it is that used terminal emulators for modern up-to-date systems, but I would guess somewhere in the range of millions. The Powerline symbols are mostly intended for terminal emulators running bash (as login shell), and the ”branch” symbol is intended for bash prompts that include git status indication; quite popular for those of us that use git. I often get such a prompt as default when I log in to certain systems, prompts designed by someone else… Though not yet using the Powerline symbols.</span></font></div><div><font style="font-size: 15px;" face="Calibri" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div><font face="Calibri" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">But people make terminal emulators for all sorts of old things, not just up-to-date Linux/etc. Apparently there are terminal emulators also for IBM 3278, but I’m not familiar with those. If for some reason you cannot do </span></font><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">selected and copy as text</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> for line 25, then you should report that as a bug to whoever made that terminal emulator.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">/Kent K</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">PS</span></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">If you don</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">’</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">t have easy access to a </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">”</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">real</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">”</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> terminal emulator, there are online ones (with a very sandboxed environment; </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">nobody</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> wants you to go and hack their </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">system...</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">). Here is a list someone made: </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class=""><a href="https://itsfoss.com/online-linux-terminals/" class="">https://itsfoss.com/online-linux-terminals/</a>. </span></font><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">You can try some of then out, they have different properties/capabilities. Here</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">’</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">s a direct link to one: </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class=""><a href="https://xtermjs.org/" class="">https://xtermjs.org/</a>; it, like the ”real” ones (but often not the web ones) allow for copy-and-paste (to outside of this web based terminal emulator demo):</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class=""><div>Unicode support And much more... │</div><div> │ Supports CJK 語 and emoji ❤️</div><div><br class=""></div><div>(Styling is not preserved in this copy-paste, unfortunately; I know of one terminal emulator that has some (imperfect) support for preserving styling when copy-pasting. There may be a few more, I haven’t done a survey.)</div></span></font></div><div><br class=""></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">/K</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></body></html>