Clipboard.GetText() always returns empty string in Mono on Mac

Question

Is there a way to get the clipboard on a Mac in Mono that doesn\'t return an empty string? This is using the latest NON-beta version of mono.

Clipboard.SetText(Strin

Answer 1

It may be that mono is interpreting TextDataFormat.UnicodeText to mean utf-16 but the 'other application' is placing the text on the clipboard as utf-8.

The following is a patch that, if I remember correctly, fixed an issue similar to this.

clipboard patch

You will need to build mono from and apply the patch to try this out.