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I can paste some special characters, like a bullet • but not other official characters like a vertical elipsis. When I try to paste ⋮ into a CudaText document I get a box with a question mark in it. Is there a configuration I need to make?

I just pasted this 'dots char' on linux w/o problems. what OS do you have?
EDIT
Also OK on Wine with windows version.

Wouldn't it depend solely on the font?

yes, if font supports that char, it must be pasted + shown.

Thanks for the replies! (I'm on Windows 10)

I've changed to Courier New, Roboto, Ariel, Calibri, Consolas, and other popular fonts (Options > Settings-user) but the behavior doesn't change. I still cannot past the ⋮ symbol into CudaText — it appears as a box with a question mark inside. I can paste other special characters like • or ¶ and even Spanish characters like á é Ñ and ¿. But not the ⋮ symbol.

Did I change fonts in the correct place? Any other ideas?

In main menu: "Options > Fonts > Select text font..."

You can try opening a document that already contains the character in question to see if it will display then, maybe that will help to narrow down the problem... if it's not the font

Thanks for Replying, Shovel.

Unfortunately, changing the font using the font selector did not work. I also opened Microsoft Notepad and pasted the symbol. It works. I saved the file and reopened it in CudaText. No luck — it still shows the box-with-question-mark.

Do you think it could be another setting? I tried modifying a couple of the "unprinted" settings, but that didn't do anything.

no other setting must affect it. I will check it on win10 (I am on Ubuntu).

@uvviewsoft I see the same problem on win7 - CudaText vs Notepad ('Consolas' font in both) on screenshot

yes I confirm it, on Notepad Win10. it is either the
a) Notepad special rendering code, which handles this unicode stuff and makes font subst
or
b) issue in Lazarus API

I think it must be a)