Text copied from chat apps and rich documents arrives haunted. Zero-width spaces, smart quotes dressed up as ASCII, tracking parameters riding the URLs. Cleanpaste sits between the clipboard and the paste and performs the exorcism I used to do by hand.
goals
- Banish zero-width and bidirectional control characters
- Normalize quotes, dashes, and whitespace to the forms I want
- Strip tracking parameters from URLs when asked
current status
Shipped. Lives in my launcher and gets used more than I expected.