On Sat, 4 Mar 2017 08:13:03 -0800, Dave Lers wrote:
deloptes wrote:
Dave Lers wrote:
Istvan Gabor wrote:
Hello:
I have a simple plain text document that contains the following symbols: • − ⋆ ▷ ∘ ◯ ◯ □
In trinity applications (eg kwrite) they are not shown correctly.
Interesting. The symbols show up fine when reading your email, but not when composing a reply. They also show up fine when pasted into Kate/KWrite, but not when I save them to a file. The problem for me is that I am not using utf8 encoding. If I switch KWrite Tools > Encoding to utf8, all is well.
I set explicitly the the code table to utf-8 and it is looking good in reply
Yes, I did not take it far enough. If I switch my email client to utf8, all is well there too... Well almost, if I try to reply to Jonesy? the only quoted text that appears in the compose window is the footer added by the list server. Reading his message also looks different, instead of mangled symbols there is only white space.
Please do not involve encoding setup issues into the problem I complained about. Certainly if you set your character encoding different the characters won't look right. In my case the file was saved in utf8 and open in utf8 mode. Even the display fonts are the same. In legacy KDE 3.5.10 the symbols look righth, in TDE 14.04 they don't.
Istvan