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Subject: Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:39:27 -0400
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On Wed, Sep 18, 2013, at 16:13, Dave Angel wrote:
> So is the bug in Excel, in Windows, or in the Python library?  Somebody
> is falling down on the job;  if Windows defines the string as ending at
> the first null, then the Python interface should use that when defining
> the text defined with CF_UNICODETEXT.
> 
> Or maybe it's an example of ill-defined Windows specs.

I think it's a matter of ill-defined windows specs - the clipboard data
has an exact size, and in principle that size is always used, for
example, for numerous binary formats. But the text clipboard has often
been treated as a C string by a wide variety of different applications,
so one could argue that has become a de facto standard.