When you copy text in the TinyTERM screen that includes line draw characters, they will paste into other applications as text instead. The underlying cause is the way line draw characters are displayed.

Virtually all terminal emulations use a separate display font for line draw characters. The host sends a signal, usually an escape sequence, that tells the terminal to switch to the alternate font. The host then sends the letters you see when you copy and paste, and the emulation does the display substitution.

TinyTERM version 4 uses an ActiveX control for display. When you copy out of that ActiveX control, you get the underlying data, which is not what’s displayed in the emulator window. But it is what gets pasted.

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