[Solved] Paste special characters

Shovel · Post by **Shovel** » 29.04.2021 15:50

There is something funny going on there, look at this gif (those are characters from the elipsis (it is the last character in the text) character range)

uvviewsoft · Post by **uvviewsoft** » 29.04.2021 15:53

Shovel, pls post the Gihub issue for this. tell in it- what do you press? shift+right?

Shovel · Post by **Shovel** » 29.04.2021 16:31

issue - https://github.com/Alexey-T/CudaText/issues/3359

uvviewsoft · Post by **uvviewsoft** » 30.04.2021 11:15

about '⋮' char.

this cannot be solved. it seems that Notepad uses some other API than Lazarus uses. eg it can use Uniscribe Win32 API which cannot be used in Lazarus (w/o using some 3rd party helpers). Lazarus uses 'usual DrawText/TextOut api' and it fails here.

with some fonts even the current version can render that--
https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicod ... /index.htm

nickdutz · Post by **nickdutz** » 30.04.2021 12:31

Thank you all for researching this. While you were figuring out the real causes, I went back and tried to select more fonts for the user text. Originally, when you suggested this was a font issue, I chose over 10 different fonts (very common fonts!) and none of them worked. After trying an additional 20 or so fonts this morning, I finally discovered that the various Microsoft fonts (Microsoft YaHei, Microsoft JhengHei, etc.) display this character correctly.

I'm not really prepared to change my user text to one of those Microsoft fonts, I guess I'll have to live without seeing the vertical ellipsis.

Thanks again.

Shovel · Post by **Shovel** » 30.04.2021 13:55

If someones life ever depends on seeing vertical ellipsis in text - placing character '⊿' on the same line - makes ellipsis working