Using copy/paste from pgAdmin 4 - getting <U+FEFF> character

From: Matthew Dahlman <matt(dot)dahlman(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgadmin-support(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Using copy/paste from pgAdmin 4 - getting <U+FEFF> character
Date: 2018-03-08 18:41:05
Message-ID: CAMdd_cxyFwT3OFRz5mELwieFH_8GSJHw25BZGUP8i+jpV1ksfA@mail.gmail.com
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Hello,
pgAdmin is not behaving as I would like it to in one respect. I'd like to
understand if this is a bug.

I'm having trouble using copy/paste from pgAdmin 4. The symptom is that I
get the character (Zero Width No-break Space ) aka <U+FEFF> prepended to
any string I copy.

The workaround is to paste and then delete that first character. But in
practice this is cumbersome.
Question 1: can anyone help me to prevent the FEFF character from sneaking
into the clipboard whenever I copy anything in pgAdmin?

Question 2: Should I log this as a bug? A feature request? Don't log it?
(Sorry, "question 2" contains 3 questions.)

I'm using Mac OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan) with pgAdmin 2.1 using
Python 2.7.10 (default, Jul 30 2016, 19:40:32).

Thanks for any guidance,
Matt

P.S. Yesterday I could not find this group, so I posted my question here:
https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/199644/pgadmin-4-including-ufeff-in-all-copied-strings
Andriy M suggests that this is probably intended behavior. But I'm hoping
it's at least configurable somehow.

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