[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #40882: Characters omitted when copying and pasting from Word

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#40882: Characters omitted when copying and pasting from Word
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 Reporter:  janthony636   |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Editor        |    Version:  4.7.5
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                |
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 I have been preparing WordPress pages by arranging the information in
 Microsoft Word 2016, and then copying it from Word and pasting it into
 WordPress. My pages almost all include citations that I've copied from
 Google Scholar and pasted into Word.

 I noticed recently that in the citations, the following characters would
 be missing:
 - the (nonbreaking) space that follows the italicized publication name
 - the volume number that follows after that
 - the period that follows after that

 When I first noticed this, I went back through 70+ pages and it looked
 like these characters had been omitted every time.

 Note that when this happened again on another page yesterday, I decided to
 report a bug. I had already deleted the Word source file, so I tried to
 reproduce the behavior with a small new Word file. I found that I was
 never able to reproduce this behavior.

 Today I saw this behavior again on yet another new page. This time I've
 saved the Word source file, and I've confirmed that this happened again
 when I copied and pasted again.

 Please fix this if at all possible. Copying and pasting is such a reliable
 operation normally in every modern application that it's fairly easy to
 not realize that in WordPress this operation introduces errors that need
 to be fixed.

 Thanks!

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