From 969c72be028ead6a78928c1eea1c71da3bc94fab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frederic Laing <frederic.laing.development@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 08:34:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix: handle invalid UTF-8 in clipboard text paste

---
 src/clipboard.rs | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/clipboard.rs b/src/clipboard.rs
index fd26a0e..bf84bee 100644
--- a/src/clipboard.rs
+++ b/src/clipboard.rs
@@ -317,9 +317,11 @@ impl TryFrom<(Vec<u8>, String)> for ClipboardPasteText {
         if data.is_empty() {
             return Err("Empty text data".into());
         }
-        let text = str::from_utf8(&data)?;
+        // Use lossy conversion to handle clipboard data that may contain
+        // invalid UTF-8 (e.g., Latin-1 encoded special characters from browsers)
+        let text = String::from_utf8_lossy(&data);
         Ok(Self {
-            data: text.to_string(),
+            data: text.into_owned(),
         })
     }
 }