The clipboard seems to work fine for me.

As mentioned in #1882, FontForge is using the X Window system which is not native to Windows. Hence FontForge makes use of a ported X Window server caled VcXsrv. VcXsrv implements the clipboard feature that allows you to copy/paste to/from the X application (FontForge).

The VcXsrv used is currently stuck at version 1.14.2 for Windows XP support, so it may help to update to a later VcXsrv. Although as I mentioned the clipboard was working fine for me, and that was with 1.14.2.

Try Ubuntu ;)

@jtanx did you try pasting into the file picker? I tried 3 ways that failed, with the standard install of font forge, latest version, today. Ctrl-v, an autohotkey macro that reads the clipboard text and retypes it using Windows APIs, and the right-click/Paste entry. None of them worked. I didn't try pasting into other parts of the application... I was trying to open a font file for experimentation.

Yes, I tried by pasting using Ctrl-V and right click pasting - no issues.

@v-python, out of interest what keyboard layout are you using? Are you also using any non-English/non-US based locale?

It is a Dvorak layout... but not exactly the one M$ ships, because I learned ISO standard & recommended Dvorak on other equipment, and M$ uses ISO Standard, but doesn't follow all the recommendations. Then I also have a bunch of AutoHotKey macros that I use to type international characters from various languages. I had thought to use M$ Keyboard Layout Creator to make an internationalized version of the Dvorak layout, similar to the M$ US International layout, but I found it easier to do it using AutoHotKey.

Were you testing Ctrl-v on Windows 7 or some other version? Oh, maybe Ctrl-QWERTY-v would work... umm... testing... nope.

US locale.

This may have been the result of #2286. Please reopen if it's still an issue.