"I" is also a whole word in a single character but it doesn't make me want to copy it. In fact, I rather want not to, because I find it much more useful to be able to change my mind about copying something: by unmark down to one char. I guess ESC is just as simple, but you can't fight habit! :-) In such cases I just want to copy "I", I rather push "I" button. It kinda gives the same effect;-)
If copying a single char is motivated by the fact that some chars is not produceable by the keyboard, I don't see why copying two chars, paste it and delete the one you don't want, is not a sulution good enough.
Khaled, please don't make me have to change my habit about how I stop marking a text!
That said, it's not good coding practise to make a general marking tool that got an exeption for when there are cirtain amoung of chars marked. So you were a bad boy when you made this in the first place, Khaled. You're resposible for my bad habit! :-)
Conclusion: When mIRC doesn't copy a marked text when amoung of chars is one, should be considered a BUG!
Another thing. It would be nice if Khaled could add a char map for all possible chars sent on IRC that is not directly produced by a stadard keyboard key set, where it is possible to produce this char by clicking at it in this map. I'm thinking of something like what is popping up when ctrl + k is pressed. This is increasingly desirable now with UTF-8 support, and with this hook into Sats text, good night everyone.