Fix clipboard encoding issue on WSL#59
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This PR addresses Unicode encoding issues when copying to clipboard on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) by implementing a WSL-specific clipboard handler that uses PowerShell with UTF-8 encoding.
Key Changes:
- Adds WSL detection logic using environment variables and kernel information
- Implements PowerShell-based clipboard writing for WSL with UTF-8 encoding support
- Provides fallback to the original clipboard method if PowerShell fails
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Copilot made valid points. I have updated writeToWindowsClipboard function accordingly |
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LGTM thanks! Sorry for the delay
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I am using this tool on a Windows 11 machine inside a WSL2 Ubuntu distribution.
Ingestion mechanism works as intended, however copying to clipboard does not work properly. Unicode characters are not properly copied to clipboard. Example in figure below:
With these changes:
Here is working example:
