[iOS/IPadOS] Why does text containing ":" get url-encoded when pasted into editor?

[travisnburton]

When pasting text where the first line contains : into an editor window, all text following the colon is url-encoded.

Example text without colon on first line:

text
encoding: none
foo bar baz

Normal result when pasted into editor:

text
encoding: none
foo bar baz

Example text with colon on first line:

text:
encoding: url
foo bar baz

Encoded result when pasted into editor:

text:%0Aencoding%3A%20url%0Afoo%20bar%20baz

This encoding does not happen when pasting text into the code-server terminal, it only happens when pasting into code-server editor windows.

I have no extensions installed, and all settings are default.

[code-asher]

Interesting, any idea if it happens to you in Codespaces? I ask because it seems most likely an upstream issue with VS Code itself, if I had to guess. I tried to reproduce in code-server 4.93.1 in a brand new file called new but it worked as expected for me.

[code-asher]

And to test I used ctrl+c ctrl+v in Firefox.

[travisnburton]

It does seem to be a problem with VS Code, but i have no idea what it could be. I cannot replicate it in Codespaces.

[travisnburton]

Apparently this is the way Apple has decided to treat strings containing a colon - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77662557/how-do-you-avoid-copy-paste-content-with-a-coming-out-url-encoded-on-an-ipho

It's strange that i haven't been able to find any other conversations/issues about this here.

[code-asher]

Very interesting!! Good to know, and nice find.

[code-asher]

Strange that it does not reproduce in Codespaces though, I wonder if they apply a workaround there.

[travisnburton]

Resolved by disabling editor.pasteAs.enabled