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Copying text from copilot gets hidden unicode byte order mark prepended, breaking commands #2218

@qbradley

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@qbradley

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When I copy and paste a command from copilot output, the command is not found because of a hidden byte order mark is prepended. For example, if I copy the three letters "sed" from copilot output and pipe it through hexdump you can see the extra bytes:

❯ sed
-bash: sed: command not found

~echo 'sed' | hexdump -C
00000000  ef bb bf 73 65 64 0a                              |...sed.|
00000007

This used to work so I believe it might be regression. Copying and pasting outputs from other programs besides github copilot cli continues to work.

I tried to repro with github copilot cli in the terminal on Windows 11 and also in the terminal in VSCode remoted to WSL. It repro'd in both cases.

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