From 8567eab09ac8a9fbee59e0fcbb5e5a3de5b19049 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maciej Suminski <maciej.suminski@cern.ch>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 09:26:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix pasting BOARD_ITEMs containing Unicode characters

Fixes: lp:1749549
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1749549
---
 pcbnew/kicad_clipboard.cpp | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pcbnew/kicad_clipboard.cpp b/pcbnew/kicad_clipboard.cpp
index a6e5b40d28..9b8c2f0611 100644
--- a/pcbnew/kicad_clipboard.cpp
+++ b/pcbnew/kicad_clipboard.cpp
@@ -190,7 +190,8 @@ void CLIPBOARD_IO::SaveSelection( const SELECTION& aSelected )
 
 BOARD_ITEM* CLIPBOARD_IO::Parse()
 {
-    std::string result;
+    BOARD_ITEM* item;
+    wxString result;
 
     if( wxTheClipboard->Open() )
     {
@@ -198,18 +199,18 @@ BOARD_ITEM* CLIPBOARD_IO::Parse()
         {
             wxTextDataObject data;
             wxTheClipboard->GetData( data );
-
-            result = data.GetText().mb_str();
+            result = data.GetText();
         }
 
         wxTheClipboard->Close();
     }
 
-    BOARD_ITEM *item;
     try
     {
         item = PCB_IO::Parse( result );
-    } catch (...) {
+    }
+    catch (...)
+    {
         item = nullptr;
     }