diff --git a/browser_tests/tests/rightClickMenu.spec.ts-snapshots/right-click-menu-chromium-linux.png b/browser_tests/tests/rightClickMenu.spec.ts-snapshots/right-click-menu-chromium-linux.png
index ccfcbd7ba6..306ee8ebb7 100644
Binary files a/browser_tests/tests/rightClickMenu.spec.ts-snapshots/right-click-menu-chromium-linux.png and b/browser_tests/tests/rightClickMenu.spec.ts-snapshots/right-click-menu-chromium-linux.png differ
diff --git a/src/composables/useCopy.ts b/src/composables/useCopy.ts
index b2455fef86..abf60d71d2 100644
--- a/src/composables/useCopy.ts
+++ b/src/composables/useCopy.ts
@@ -23,10 +23,16 @@ export const useCopy = () => {
     const canvas = canvasStore.canvas
     if (canvas?.selectedItems) {
       const serializedData = canvas.copyToClipboard()
+      // Use TextEncoder to handle Unicode characters properly
+      const base64Data = btoa(
+        String.fromCharCode(
+          ...Array.from(new TextEncoder().encode(serializedData))
+        )
+      )
       // clearData doesn't remove images from clipboard
       e.clipboardData?.setData(
         'text/html',
-        clipboardHTMLWrapper.join(btoa(serializedData))
+        clipboardHTMLWrapper.join(base64Data)
       )
       e.preventDefault()
       e.stopImmediatePropagation()
diff --git a/src/composables/usePaste.ts b/src/composables/usePaste.ts
index 551065f0d5..9a40fab9a3 100644
--- a/src/composables/usePaste.ts
+++ b/src/composables/usePaste.ts
@@ -14,9 +14,11 @@ function pasteClipboardItems(data: DataTransfer): boolean {
   const match = rawData.match(/data-metadata="([A-Za-z0-9+/=]+)"/)?.[1]
   if (!match) return false
   try {
-    useCanvasStore()
-      .getCanvas()
-      ._deserializeItems(JSON.parse(atob(match)), {})
+    // Decode UTF-8 safe base64
+    const binaryString = atob(match)
+    const bytes = Uint8Array.from(binaryString, (c) => c.charCodeAt(0))
+    const decodedData = new TextDecoder().decode(bytes)
+    useCanvasStore().getCanvas()._deserializeItems(JSON.parse(decodedData), {})
     return true
   } catch (err) {
     console.error(err)
diff --git a/src/lib/litegraph/src/LGraphCanvas.ts b/src/lib/litegraph/src/LGraphCanvas.ts
index d1d2062c94..0f2fae1da4 100644
--- a/src/lib/litegraph/src/LGraphCanvas.ts
+++ b/src/lib/litegraph/src/LGraphCanvas.ts
@@ -8031,7 +8031,13 @@ export class LGraphCanvas
           has_submenu: true,
           callback: LGraphCanvas.onMenuAdd
         },
-        { content: 'Add Group', callback: LGraphCanvas.onGroupAdd }
+        { content: 'Add Group', callback: LGraphCanvas.onGroupAdd },
+        {
+          content: 'Paste',
+          callback: () => {
+            this.pasteFromClipboard()
+          }
+        }
         // { content: "Arrange", callback: that.graph.arrange },
         // {content:"Collapse All", callback: LGraphCanvas.onMenuCollapseAll }
       ]
diff --git a/tests-ui/tests/composables/clipboard.test.ts b/tests-ui/tests/composables/clipboard.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bed017f332
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests-ui/tests/composables/clipboard.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+
+/**
+ * Encodes a UTF-8 string to base64 (same logic as useCopy.ts)
+ */
+function encodeClipboardData(data: string): string {
+  return btoa(
+    String.fromCharCode(...Array.from(new TextEncoder().encode(data)))
+  )
+}
+
+/**
+ * Decodes base64 to UTF-8 string (same logic as usePaste.ts)
+ */
+function decodeClipboardData(base64: string): string {
+  const binaryString = atob(base64)
+  const bytes = Uint8Array.from(binaryString, (c) => c.charCodeAt(0))
+  return new TextDecoder().decode(bytes)
+}
+
+describe('Clipboard UTF-8 base64 encoding/decoding', () => {
+  it('should handle ASCII-only strings', () => {
+    const original = '{"nodes":[{"id":1,"type":"LoadImage"}]}'
+    const encoded = encodeClipboardData(original)
+    const decoded = decodeClipboardData(encoded)
+    expect(decoded).toBe(original)
+  })
+
+  it('should handle Chinese characters in localized_name', () => {
+    const original =
+      '{"nodes":[{"id":1,"type":"LoadImage","localized_name":"图像"}]}'
+    const encoded = encodeClipboardData(original)
+    const decoded = decodeClipboardData(encoded)
+    expect(decoded).toBe(original)
+  })
+
+  it('should handle Japanese characters', () => {
+    const original = '{"localized_name":"画像を読み込む"}'
+    const encoded = encodeClipboardData(original)
+    const decoded = decodeClipboardData(encoded)
+    expect(decoded).toBe(original)
+  })
+
+  it('should handle Korean characters', () => {
+    const original = '{"localized_name":"이미지 불러오기"}'
+    const encoded = encodeClipboardData(original)
+    const decoded = decodeClipboardData(encoded)
+    expect(decoded).toBe(original)
+  })
+
+  it('should handle mixed ASCII and Unicode characters', () => {
+    const original =
+      '{"nodes":[{"id":1,"type":"LoadImage","localized_name":"加载图像","label":"Load Image 图片"}]}'
+    const encoded = encodeClipboardData(original)
+    const decoded = decodeClipboardData(encoded)
+    expect(decoded).toBe(original)
+  })
+
+  it('should handle emoji characters', () => {
+    const original = '{"title":"Test Node 🎨🖼️"}'
+    const encoded = encodeClipboardData(original)
+    const decoded = decodeClipboardData(encoded)
+    expect(decoded).toBe(original)
+  })
+
+  it('should handle empty string', () => {
+    const original = ''
+    const encoded = encodeClipboardData(original)
+    const decoded = decodeClipboardData(encoded)
+    expect(decoded).toBe(original)
+  })
+
+  it('should handle complex node data with multiple Unicode fields', () => {
+    const original = JSON.stringify({
+      nodes: [
+        {
+          id: 1,
+          type: 'LoadImage',
+          localized_name: '图像',
+          inputs: [{ localized_name: '图片', name: 'image' }],
+          outputs: [{ localized_name: '输出', name: 'output' }]
+        }
+      ],
+      groups: [{ title: '预处理组 🔧' }],
+      links: []
+    })
+    const encoded = encodeClipboardData(original)
+    const decoded = decodeClipboardData(encoded)
+    expect(decoded).toBe(original)
+    expect(JSON.parse(decoded)).toEqual(JSON.parse(original))
+  })
+
+  it('should produce valid base64 output', () => {
+    const original = '{"localized_name":"中文测试"}'
+    const encoded = encodeClipboardData(original)
+    // Base64 should only contain valid characters
+    expect(encoded).toMatch(/^[A-Za-z0-9+/=]+$/)
+  })
+
+  it('should fail with plain btoa for non-Latin1 characters', () => {
+    const original = '{"localized_name":"图像"}'
+    // This demonstrates why we need TextEncoder - plain btoa fails
+    expect(() => btoa(original)).toThrow()
+  })
+})