NO-BREAK SPACE ignored when setting as clipboard data

[David Zita]

I need to have some pre-defined clipboard contents, so I made a little utility that stores clipboard content into file. It stores only Text and HTML formats. Now, the utility can store and load clipboards from files. When I load it using my utility, it is loaded correctly (i.e. including this NO-BREAK SPACE U+00A0 when it's part of the clipboard). When I copy the same code into Ranorex and run it there, the U+00A0 character is ignored and that leads to some consequences (pasted text is then incorrectly displayed etc.)
I have been struggling with this for past few days, tried everything. I have verified, that even in Ranorex the value loaded from the file contains the no-brake space character, so the problem is when calling ClipBoard.SetData. In both projects I am using .NET 4.6.2, since Ranorex projects are 32bit, I set the SaveClipboard project also as 32bit. Still no success.

To reproduce the problem, download the SaveClipboard project. There's already a built version. Syntax is:

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SaveClipboard.exe -i html.json

to import stored clipboard, or

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SaveClipboard.exe -e html.json

to export clipboard to json file.
If you import the attached html.json (in the bin folder in SaveClipboard.zip) you should get correct content into clipboard (a text "new Microsoft" where there is the no-brake space between the two words.
If you import from the same file using the same code but inside Ranorex project, it skips the no-brake space.
You can easily check the content of you clipboard using https://freeclipboardviewer.com/. Or just paste the clipboard into Word. If it's correct, there is a space between two words. If it's from Ranorex, there is no space (see the images).

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[David Zita]

Hi, I have created an issue as you suggested, it's been a 2 weeks now and no answer (except for the automatic one). My case ID is 00865404. Can someone check it please? Thank you.

[David Zita]

Conclusion:
After communicating with Ranorex team, we have found out that it's probably something in my environment. If I try it on fresh new system it works as expected. On my system, it only works when I run the test suite. If try just one recording module, the mentioned bug appears.