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Parsat
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Yes, it can be done!

I'm sure you're all aware that if you try to straight copy off of Notepad, you get this:


Here is some text that I copied straight off of Notepad:

The apostrophe's email, blah&blah@gmail.com, (which does not actually exist), was listed as #3 and put on sale for $400 at 50% off!


See those weird symbols? The reason for this is because by default, Notepad uses a different encoding (ANSI) than AG (which uses Unicode).

So how to get past this? Simple. Hit Ctrl+S, or go to File and press save to bring up the save menu. Now under where you input the file name and the file type, there's a box for "Encoding." Go down there and change it from ANSI to Unicode.

http://i477.photobucket.com/albums/rr134/Parsat/unicodeexample.png

Now save the file. When you do this, it switches up the encoding to something that AG can process. Now, take a look at the sentence that I've saved in Unicode:


Here is some text that I copied straight off of Notepad:

The apostrophe's email, blah&blah@gmail.com, (which does not actually exist), was listed as #3 and put on sale for $400 at 50% off!


So next time you're working on that amazing poem, or a massive debate argument, or just a general TL;DR post, prevent the fatal "accidentally hitting back" scenario! Besides, you may do yourself a favor by saving your own work.
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Parsat
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And of course, lack of preview function makes it so that I screw the demo up. Check to see if this works now:

Here is some text that I copied straight off of Notepad:

The apostrophe's email, blah&blah@gmail.com, (which does not actually exist), was listed as #3 and put on sale for $400 at 50% off!

CommanderDude7
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I thought it worked if it came from notepad and only word was the one that messed it up.

Darkroot
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Sounds interesting I wonder why I didnât think of it. This text if from Microsoft word and it would be nice if it worked. Thought maybe in new AG 3 you will just be able to paste anything.

Lets see if that worked don't hate me if it didn't.

Darkroot
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No it worked it's just my keyboard got set to French Canadian and I typed in the apostrophe which isn't part of Unicode.

skater_kid_who_pwns
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Not really sure what you kids are tlaking ahout. If you copy and paste from notwpad, you get no symbols, but from Microsft word you do.

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