[tde-devels] Re: Character encodings

I attached a capture of kmail (under FreeBSD). I hope this is the answer to your question.

On Tuesday 17 March 2026 10:47:50 deloptes via tde-devels wrote:

Hi all, occasionally we have discussed issues with char encoding and the UTF-8 set. I can not recall what was done or discussed, so I want to ask first the community for common knowledge and then invest time in looking into code etc.

I have following use case. I read a book with tde-ebook-reader. I can copy following text out of the book (example: “English: The 1931 Malay census was an alarm bell. IPA: ðə 1931 ˈmeɪleɪ ˈsɛnsəs wɑz ən əˈlɑrm bɛl.”) but in the reader the IPA characters are shown as squares. Is it a font issue, or encoding handling issue in tde-ebook-reader?