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Doitsu · 10-24-2015, 06:18 AM

I wasn't able to reproduce this issue with the Sigil 0.8.7 and 0.8.9 Windows and Linux versions. It's most likely a system font management issue.
Since Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New don't contain the ONE DOT LEADER glyph (․), the system most likely uses a fallback font for this glyph. AFAIK, Windows uses Segoe UI Symbol. If you don't have this font installed, you might see a box.

As a workaround you could either install a free font that contains this glyph, e.g. Charis SIL, DejaVu Sans/Serif, Linux Libertine/Linux Biolinum, and select it as the display font and/or use the equivalent HTML entity (․ or ․).

(Make sure to add whatever entity you choose to the Entities to preserve dialog box (Edit > Preferences > Preserve Entities) otherwise Sigil will convert it to the corresponding Unicode character and you might not be able to tell it apart from a normal dot.)

10-24-2015, 06:18 AM	#5
Doitsu Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,737 Karma: 24031401 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Kindle PW2	I wasn't able to reproduce this issue with the Sigil 0.8.7 and 0.8.9 Windows and Linux versions. It's most likely a system font management issue. Since Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New don't contain the ONE DOT LEADER glyph (․), the system most likely uses a fallback font for this glyph. AFAIK, Windows uses Segoe UI Symbol. If you don't have this font installed, you might see a box. As a workaround you could either install a free font that contains this glyph, e.g. Charis SIL, DejaVu Sans/Serif, Linux Libertine/Linux Biolinum, and select it as the display font and/or use the equivalent HTML entity (․ or ․). (Make sure to add whatever entity you choose to the Entities to preserve dialog box (Edit > Preferences > Preserve Entities) otherwise Sigil will convert it to the corresponding Unicode character and you might not be able to tell it apart from a normal dot.) Last edited by Doitsu; 10-24-2015 at 06:32 AM.