[BRLTTY] xbrlapi: Minor clipboard issues and one small feature request

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Eric Scheibler on 2026/02/08 at 10:52 +0100]

>Text:
>
>    abc def
>
>Now use your braille devices routing keys to copy:
>
>1. Start with "a" and end with "f":
>   Pasting works fine on tty1 with brlttys paste shortcut and on x11 with ctrl+v.
>   Same results, no appended spaces anywhere, just as expected.
>
>2. Start with "a" and end 5 chars after the "f":
>   Then pasting on x11 with ctrl+v appends the space as mentioned but on tty1 it doesn't.
>   Either some part of the code strips the space on tty1 or somewhere in xbrlapi the space gets added. At least that's my guess.
>
>Maybe fix this inconsistency and decide on one behavior?

Okay. brltty's copy retains a single trailing blank if there are any but its paste trims all trailing blanks from the clipboard content.

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