> Four, no really four ways to copy...

All of which are useful

> Change encoding? I have never changed the encoding of my terminal, not once since first using a computer, circa 1982.

Then you've never worked with Japanese. Which is fine, but a significant proportion of the world needs to.

> UTF8-FTW

Not for Japanese, sadly.

Neither useful for a very large majority of people. Yet you’ve decided we must avoid them every time we look at the context menu.

Also neglected the point elsewhere that obscure options are fine in control panels, auxiliary and submenus.