On Mon, Feb 22, 2021, at 13:02, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> 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.
Yeah, I found that UTF-32LE encoding worked fine. Interesting.
> The quickest fix might come from using Search/Replace. You can
> copy/paste the unwanted character into the search box.
That also works. Thanks.
>
> Greg
>
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