Often I’ll copy text from Wikipedia and paste it into a note. I’m on a Mac. If I use Cmd-Shift-V, in any other program it just pastes the text without any formatting. In Anki, for whatever reason, it’s also copy pasting the non-breaking spaces. They are before and after whatever words in the WP article that are links to other articles. So, I have to go in and remove them, otherwise it makes for some oddly formatted cards. It does this whether or not I paste into the top (visual entry) or bottom (code) fields.
- The “Paste without Shift strips formatting” checkbox is unchecked.
- I started in safe mode and the issue persists. If I paste into the visual entry field, the NBSP markup is kept even though I’m doing a Shift-Cmd-V. If I paste into the code field, the NBSPs don’t show initially but as soon as I click into the visual editor, they appear in the code view. I don’t have to hit Save or anything. Simply clicking into the visual field makes them pop into the code field.
- If I do a normal Cmd-V in the visual field, I get all the markup, fonts, etc. Like I’d expect. If I do the basic Cmd-V in the code field, all the formatting is stripped out and I just get the text. To my knowledge, the shift is supposed to be removing all formatting and pasting only the text. This seems to be working the opposite of the checkbox mentioned in Item 1.
- I’ve checked the “Paste without Shift strips formatting” checkbox and the issue persists. It’s the exact same behavior as previously described. Both in Safe Mode and with all my add-ons loaded.
- I’m not using a third party clipboard manager.
- I’m using MacOS 15.5.
- My debug info: Anki 25.02.5 (29192d15) (ao)
Python 3.9.18 Qt 6.6.2 PyQt 6.6.1
Platform: macOS-15.5-arm64-arm-64bit
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CrowdAnki JSON exportimport Edit history Collaborate on deck creation [‘1788670778’, 2023-10-30T14:57, ‘None’, ‘’]
Enhance main window [‘877182321’, 2023-10-22T16:28, ‘None’, mod]
FSRS Helper Postpone Advance Load Balance Easy Days Disperse Siblings [‘759844606’, 2025-05-26T21:35, ‘None’, mod]
Review Heatmap [‘1771074083’, 2022-06-29T21:43, ‘None’, ‘’]
export cardsnotes from browser with metadata to csv or xlsx [‘1967530655’, 2024-03-28T09:16, ‘None’, ‘’]
nbspRemover [‘1676672391’, 2022-06-02T10:18, ‘None’, ‘’]
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Progress bar - Visualize reviewed cards and remaining Fixed by Shige [‘1708250053’, 2024-11-10T15:00, ‘None’, mod]
Note: I asked about this on Reddit and was asked to post here if I didn’t find a topic that matched my own issue. I did not find a relevant report of this behavior as I’ve described. There was a post from 2022 that was similar but not quite the same. (This site’s forum won’t allow me to post a link to the Reddit thread. But it’s in the Anki subreddit and titled “Stripping non-breaking spaces when pasting text from Wikipedia”.)
If there’s any further testing I can do, I’ll be happy to do so.