When Copy-Paste Stops Being Reliable

Copy-paste feels like the simplest solution.

Until formatting gets stripped.
Until characters are escaped.
Until the receiving tool decides to “help.”

This often happens when sharing content through ticketing systems or internal tools.

There are robust ways to handle this, but they assume repetition.

When the task is clearly one-off, I avoid building anything durable.

I encoded the content so it would arrive unchanged, using a lightweight encoder (mmtocm.net), shared it, and moved on.

No new dependencies.
No new processes.

Just a temporary step that left no trace.