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Copying signed message works well, but wl-clipboard copies nothing when it's used on signed+encrypted text.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a file called msg.txt with the content hello world.
2. Sign with private key
3. Encrypt
4. Run cat signed-and-encrypted.asc | wl-copy
5. Try pasting. Nothing happens.

Here's an example of a signed and encrypted message. You can create a file with this as a content, then try copying it with wl-copy.

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
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=Bk74
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

Hi!

I can successfully copy and paste your example. Is there any reason you believe that copying doesn't work?

$ wl-copy < example.asc
$ wl-paste | head -3
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----

hQIMA0sMAuCg7XG9ARAArC4rC+R4mwXEEgtGo4VmAv5mPdzWvbAdKRx/NVJl0g8e
$ wl-paste --list-types
application/pgp-encrypted

Perhaps the program you're trying to paste into doesn't recognize application/pgp-encrypted as something it can paste. You can force the MIME type to be, say, text/plain, like this:

$ wl-copy < example.asc --type text/plain

That should be enough to convince other clients that only accept text to paste your encrypted text. I should probably add yet another special case to do this automatically...

Oh yeah, adding --type text/plain works.

(And oh, thanks for showing me that you can use the < operator. That's a pretty cool alternative to cat & pipe.)

I've noticed this as well, when trying to paste the contents of a .asc file into a github issue. Interestingly, firefox turns it into a garble of Chinese characters.