Hello:
I have a simple plain text document that contains the following symbols: • − ⋆ ▷ ∘ ◯ ◯ □
In trinity applications (eg kwrite) they are not shown correctly. Instead of the symbols squares are shown. Libreoffice shows the symbols correctly. On another machine which has legacy KDE 3.5.10 the symbols are also shown correctly in kwrite.
Whys is this and how can I fix it?
I use trinity 14.0.4 in openSUSE 13.2 64 bit.
Thanks,
Istvan
Istvan Gabor wrote:
Whys is this and how can I fix it?
I would check the font that I use. Even if it is UTF, the font may not have those symbols in it. You can test this with kcharselect. If you are talking about file not in utf, you may want to convert to utf first.
regards
On 2017/03/02 08:42 AM, 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. Instead of the symbols squares are shown. Libreoffice shows the symbols correctly. On another machine which has legacy KDE 3.5.10 the symbols are also shown correctly in kwrite.
Whys is this and how can I fix it?
I use trinity 14.0.4 in openSUSE 13.2 64 bit.
Thanks,
Istvan
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Have you checked your locale or the encoding used to visualize the document? Usually when you see strange characters, it is a problem of wrong character encoding, this regardless of which OS or DE you use. Cheers Michele
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Hello:
I have a simple plain text document that contains the following symbols: • − ⋆ ▷ ∘ ◯ ◯ □
In trinity applications (eg kwrite) they are not shown correctly. Instead of the symbols squares are shown. Libreoffice shows the symbols correctly. On another machine which has legacy KDE 3.5.10 the symbols are also shown correctly in kwrite.
Whys is this and how can I fix it?
I use trinity 14.0.4 in openSUSE 13.2 64 bit.
Thanks,
Istvan
I have noticed the same thing. For me, it happened after an upgrade from Ubuntu Precise to Ubuntu Trusty, so it's possible there is an issue with a newer version of an underlying system library.
Can you file a bug report on this?
Thanks!
Istvan Gabor wrote:
Hello:
I have a simple plain text document that contains the following symbols: ⢠â â â· â ⯠⯠â¡
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.
On Thu, 2 Mar 2017, Dave Lers wrote:
Istvan Gabor wrote:
I have a simple plain text document that contains the following symbols: â?¢ â?? â?? â?· â?? â?¯ â?¯ â?¡
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.
More interesting! They did NOT show up fine in the OP. But, they DID in Tim's reply. And, they did NOT in your (and this) reply.
It's a messy world out there. Jonesy
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
What is the reason for not using utf8? IMO unless you are using a limited 8bit machine, you should take advantage of utf8.
regards
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.
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
Istvan Gabor wrote:
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.
Thanks for clarifying. FWIW, the symbols look fine in TDE 14.04 on Raspbian Jessie.
Recently, when logging into my main ID on my new desktop system, I get several messages about something called r14-xdg-update. The text of the first one is
The r14-xdg-update script has been run at least once. The script is not successfully updating. The script will run with each login until corrected. Please contact an administrator or take appropriate administrative action to correct the problem. The error code is 9.
Searching the list archive, I found a few references to this script, but little useful information about it aside from the information that error code 9 has something to do with file privileges. There seems to be nothing in the documentation about this script, which seems to perform some sort of updates to the Trinity configuration. From the effects that it has had on my system, I would say that there needs to be something written up and placed into the user doecumentation about this. So far it has wiped out my desktop settings and recently it made all of my kmail (configuration, folders and contents) disappear. What do I need to do to fix this? I'm afraid to log into any of my secondary IDs for fear that they will be corrupted as well. The vague description of error code 9 gives me little to go on. What file privileges need to be set, for what files or directories? What exactly is r14-xdg-update trying to do?
Leslie
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