That just removes formatting, reducing the copied text to plain-text. If I paste the strings from the blog post into atom and then arrow right from the beginnin

That just removes formatting, reducing the copied text to plain-text. If I paste the strings from the blog post into atom and then arrow right from the beginning, there are locations where the col number will increase and the cursor not move. I don't think ctrl-shift-v will do what you think here because we're not talking about formatting at all. We're talking about regular unicode UTF-8 encoded text.