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[Edit: Update. The idea is based on a wrong notion. It turns
out that the address line gets URL encoded only if copied
from the first letter. Starting from the second letter it leaves
the message as is. Following is the orignal text of the idea.]
If you choose only the Greek or Arabic or
Hebrew or Russian
part of the URL and copy it you get it in the original language.
But if you choose the whole URL, you get an encoded page.
https://moc.werbeh.www/s?
=%D7%A1%D7%AA%D7%9D +
%D7%93%D7%95%D7%92%D7%9E%D7%90
So if you copy the first part http://moc.werbeh.www/s?= and
only then copy the
HB:STM_DFGMA:BH and add it to your url you get a
readable message if you know how to read that language.
MUC to the rescue! When you ctrl v or right click the address
bar and press copy, it checks if there is a url protocol such as
http:// or https:// and if so it starts copying until it reaches
a
letter with a char value that is above the English set (and will
be url-encoded) It then marks from that section to the end of
the line, and copies it in a second stage, adding it to the first
copied text in the clipboard.
HB:STM DGMA:BH
https://www.google....5%D7%92%D7%9E%D7%90
[pashute, Jul 15 2020]
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It seems there's no loss of information in the existing
copy/paste operation - only an unsatisfactory representation of
the information at the "paste" end. |
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What you're looking for, it seems, is a destination application
which will display all the gubbins with the percent signs in the
same way that your browser's address bar presents it. |
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I doubt that you'll get a universal, application-independent
solution, because different applications may have their own
funny encodings, magic strings, escape sequences, etc. |
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Wonder why they didn't go with " "s. |
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Its the same for all languages. Just go to google translate,
translate into greek and then turn it the other way copy
the address bar and paste. |
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I don't think its on the "paste side" because the clipboard
app doesn't know what the contents are or where its
pasting to. It only happens when copying the full address
from the address bar, so it seems to be a function of the
address bar itself. |
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I have a feeling that it is because the URL is not -actually- using a broad character set, but the browser address bar is actively looking for escape-codes in the url so that it can render them in an expanded character set. |
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Clearly we need a volunteer to spelunk into the source code of
Firefox and find out what it's really up to. |
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Steady on, don't all shout at once ... |
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First I found that simply eliminating the first letter from
the address line gives me the rest of the original Hebrew
with no encoding. So I can start with copying ttps://....
and simply add an h... |
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Then I tried to use procmon to find the windows
commands envoked but couldn't find how to filter them
down to show me what I'm looking for. |
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So I went to the mozilla codebase and found it: widget /
gtk / nsClipboard.cpp
line 686: void ConvertHTMLtoUCS2 (const char* data,
int32_t dataLength,
687 char16_t** unicodeData, int32_t&
outUnicodeLen) {
701 // app which use "text/html" to copy&paste
702 // get the decoder
703 auto encoding =
Encoding :: ForLabelNoReplacement( charset);
704 if (!encoding) { ... |
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I had no idea anyone would actually take up my suggestion. |
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I should be more careful what I post here; someone could get
hurt! |
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