Public bug reported: If I paste a special character - say from the Character Map - into Gedit or medit in Ubuntu 16.04 into the middle of a line, then the space characters directly after the special character display with a "compressed" character spacing/display until the behaviour is "interrupted" by a standard text character.
So the basic problem result is that the uniform monospacing of characters gets out of alignment on lines above and below the lines with the special character problem. I posted a detailed question on AskUbuntu and the prevailing opinion was that I should log a bug report. Another user with different versions was easily able to reproduce the same issue . https://askubuntu.com/questions/986258/why-do-special-characters-change- spacing-following-space-character-in-gedit-or-m Please see that post for full details, worked example, and screenshots. Additional comments: * As stated above: - running Ubuntu 16.04 * This affects: - Gedit 3.18.3 - medit 1.2.0 I am aware that it is thus not strictly a gedit issue, and probably affects multiple Gnome editor under multiple Linux variants but Gedit is my favourite text editor and Ubuntu is my favourite Linux so I thought I would start here. $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS Release: 16.04 $ apt-cache policy gedit gedit: Installed: 3.18.3-0ubuntu4 Candidate: 3.18.3-0ubuntu4 Version table: *** 3.18.3-0ubuntu4 500 500 http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status $ apt-cache policy medit medit: Installed: 1.2.0-2 Candidate: 1.2.0-2 Version table: *** 1.2.0-2 500 500 http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ** Affects: gedit (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1744946 Title: Special characters change the width of trailing/leading space character in Gedit (and medit) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/1744946/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
