Unable to paste unicode characters

[Jeremiah114]

Steps to reproduce

When I try to copy and paste certain unicode characters like pi (960), angle (8736) into the editor, it appears as "p" and "Ð"

Expected result

Should display as the actual pi and angle character

Actual result

Appear as "p" and "Ð"

Other details (browser, OS, CKEditor version, installed plugins)

Same effect on IE, chrome etc

[Piotrek Koszuliński]

On Chrome this is available in the clipboard:

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:Arial;color:red'>Pasting </span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:Symbol;mso-ascii-font-family:Arial;mso-hansi-font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:red;mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:
Symbol'><span style='mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol'>Ð</span></span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:Arial;color:red'> in ckeditor becomes Ð<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:Arial;color:red'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:Arial;color:red'>Pasting </span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol;mso-ascii-font-family:
Arial;mso-hansi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:red;
mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-char-type:
symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol'>p</span></span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:Arial;color:red'> in ckeditor becomes p<o:p></o:p></span></p>

So Word indeed uses "p" and "Ð", but style them using font-family:Symbol. Unfortunately, this is totally incorrect behaviour, because these characters does not represent pi and angle characters: ​http://jsfiddle.net/vhgub77z/

To fix this we would need to add special kind of transformation which finds these spans and translate them into what they should be.

[Tade0]

For some reason this works now in Chrome with the new PFW plugin(4.6.0).

Interestingly Firefox still has this error.