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MissyQ
Former Employee
Aug 19, 2020

Announcing a new way to paste URLs, Link format!

Recently, we wanted to dig into how users feel about copying and pasting a URL from their browser. We looked to understand what they do when they copy and paste URLs, as well as the pain points they ...
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rshupak
Iron Contributor
Sep 15, 2020

Scott Arbeit Sadly, it never did what you describe of copying what you select. Try a URL with non-ASCII characters like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Białystok.  What used to get put on the clipboard was the text https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bia%C5%82ystok.  Now you get this plus the following HTML as well as two new link formats.

 

   <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bia%C5%82ystok">Białystok - Wikipedia</a>

 

What bothers me more is that Win+V is deceptive.  I see the following yet this isn't what is pasted.  There is no combination of Win+V and Paste Special.  Even Ctrl+Shift+V is Edge specific.

 

 

 

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JaredB81
Former Employee
Sep 15, 2020

Thank you, rshupak.

 

I'm not able to reproduce the behavior you describe on that URL (and I have tested other non-ASCII cases as well).

 

A few questions for you to better understand what you are experiencing: 

  1. Which channel and build of Edge are you using?  You can find both the build and channel in edge://version 
  2. Where exactly (in which website, web app or Windows app) are you attempting to paste the URL?  
  3. What is your default format setting in edge://settings/shareCopyPaste ?
  4. How are you attempting to perform the paste (ctrl+v, ctrl+shift+v or the right-click context menu)?

 

For example, when I use the "plain text" paste format here, I get: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bia%C5%82ystok. as you described I should.

 

Thanks very much,

Jared