Since upgrading to OS14, I can't paste to TextEdit from external apps, i.e. a portion of text from email or website. The paste results in a square with question mark inside for each character.
MacBook Air, macOS 14.7
It seems to be clearly a font issue.
What font is being used in the documents you are copying from?
What happens if instead simply pasting you choose Edit->Paste and Match Style?
jellevant wrote:
Since upgrading to OS14, I can't paste to TextEdit from external apps, i.e. a portion of text from email or website. The paste results in a square with question mark inside for each character.
The font is not recognized...
are you pasting into plain.txt / rich text.rtf / or rich text with images.rtfd...(?) compare your results
ref: TextEdit User Guide for Mac
try a different example from "i.e. a portion of text from email or website."
FontBook.app>Setting >Advanced>Reset
Did you try the Reset Fonts fix? If it works it will help you identify a possibly bad font you have installed which is causing the problem. It does not remove any fonts from your machine, just puts some of them someplace else temporarily.
Thank you. 1)I usually use rtf, but either that or text, same result. 2) I need all my fonts! And it always worked until OS14. I see that it only happens when I'm copying from particular websites or emails from some email services and if I copy the question mark icon string and past it it does produce the actual text. Never tried that before. so, I guess I'll have to live with it unless when I jump to Sequoia it fixes itself. Very annoying to workflow but not the end of the world. Just another 'improvement' that isnt...
Problem pasting to TextEdit in OS14.
