GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 792832
Special characters change the width of trailing/leading space character in Gedit (and medit)
Last modified: 2020-11-24 09:56:53 UTC
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 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: * Gnome: Version 3.18.5-0ubuntu0.3 Version 3.18.4-0ubuntu3 * As stated above: - running Ubuntu 16.04 * This affects: - Gedit 3.18.3 - medit 1.2.0 $ 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
Mass-closing of all gedit bugzilla tickets. Special "code" to find again all those gedit bugzilla tickets that were open before the mass-closing: 2bfe1b0590a78457e1f1a6a90fb975f5878cb60064ccfe1d7db76ca0da52f0f3 By searching the above sha256sum in bugzilla, the gedit contributors can find again the tickets. We may be interested to do so when we work on a specific area of the code, to at least know the known problems and possible enhancements. We do this mass-closing because bugzilla.gnome.org is being replaced by gitlab.gnome.org.