On 2/22/21 2:49 PM, Matt Miller wrote: > I'm loading my book into a text frame chain from a text file. I want to > control which words can be hyphenated, so I have the soft hyphen character, > hex 2D, in particular words throughout my text file as I wish. I right-click > on the frame and use the "Get Text..." dialog to load the frame, but the > soft hyphen character is displayed in the frame as a black diamond with a > question mark in it, and the character is not treated as a soft hyphen. If I > delete that character in Scribus and use "Insert | Character | Soft Hyphen" > or Ctrl+Shift+-, then everything works as expected. > > I've verified that my text file encoding is UTF-8, and that "UTF-8" is > selected in the "Get Text..." dialog. I've tried my text file with or > without a BOM, and still the results are the same. I'm on Windows, and If I > change both my text file encoding and the "Get Text..." encoding option to > Windows-1252 then the soft hyphen comes across properly, but then other > characters from my file, for example the pilcrow, are goofed up. My text > file has some pretty obscure Unicode characters, so I think I need to stick > with UTF-8. > > Should I look at tags and text filters or some scripting as a workaround, or > is there some easier way to do this? Shouldn't a soft hyphen character in a > text file be treated the same as one inserted from the Scribus insert menu? >
Hi Matt, It's probably something about the encoding. The quickest fix might come from using Search/Replace. You can copy/paste the unwanted character into the search box. Greg ___ Scribus Mailing List: scribus@lists.scribus.net Edit your options or unsubscribe: http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus See also: http://wiki.scribus.net http://forums.scribus.net
