Copying text to clipboard from Ubuntu and pasting it in Notepad loses line terminators. #3817

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opened 2026-01-30 23:30:45 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @michelforget on GitHub (Sep 10, 2019).

Copying text to clipboard from Ubuntu and pasting it in Notepad loses line terminators. The text looks right in the Ubuntu window, but when pasted into Notepad the text seems to have no line terminators. It seems like the text isn't being converted to MS-DOS line terminators before going into the clipboard, but probably should be.

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Windows build number: [run `[Environment]::OSVersion` for powershell, or `ver` for cmd]
Windows Terminal version (if applicable):

Any other software?

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Expected behavior

Line terminators should not be stripped. I think that if the text is in Unix format, it should be converted to Windows format prior to going into the clipboard.

Text in Notepad should look the same as the text in the source window.

Actual behavior

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Reference: starred/terminal#3817