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Swagboy69  
#1 Posted : Friday, March 15, 2024 12:19:54 PM(UTC)
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Hi @Rob and everyone,

This problem popped up alongside my previous "JSON corruption" error that I posted below. Here's a screenshot.

[img=https://1drv.ms/i/s!AsuOdiR9EFUnjZ9hiHj3w_-9uuzx2Q]missing glyphs[/img]

missing glyphs

As you can see, those "diamonds with question marks" indicate that specific font character/glyph is missing. It's called an "en dash" ( – ), basically a longer hyphen.

Also missing is the "pipe" character ( | ), which is the shifted+backslash key above "ENTER".

These font characters/glyphs DOES render correctly everywhere else on my PC, both natively in Windows and in other apps.

As I described in my other post, all these problems happened after a virus-removal and subsequent restart and crash. The characters are even not being rendered after I'd imported a backup profile, so something within SP is persisting.

It's not a huge deal, this is more about my curiousity so that if I understand what happened, perhaps we can avoid it in the future. Thanks!

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#2 Posted : Friday, March 15, 2024 1:14:24 PM(UTC)
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It sounds to me like your settings file's encoding is ASCII or something else, instead of UTF-8.

Open the StrokesPlus.net.json file in Notepad and go to File > Save As... - look in the lower right and see what the Encoding dropdown shows.
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#3 Posted : Friday, March 15, 2024 1:20:33 PM(UTC)
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Hi Rob, thanks for the quick reply.

I opened the "StrokesPlus.net.json" file up in Notepad++, and it says "UTF-8" in both the "encoding" dropdown and the bottom right-corner.
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#4 Posted : Friday, March 15, 2024 5:18:55 PM(UTC)
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If you search in the file for "Jump back" do you see the correct glyph in the JSON file text?
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#5 Posted : Friday, March 15, 2024 5:54:34 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Rob Go to Quoted Post
If you search in the file for "Jump back" do you see the correct glyph in the JSON file text?



Wow, actually no – still seeing the "diamond-?" glyph.

So I went ahead and searched for the "diamond-?" glyph, which gave 223 hits!

Does this mean that it's not a rendering problem but rather a mapping problem? If I replace all the diamonds with my desired glyph, would that work? Interesting... I'll make a backup and test it!

Update: I think that worked! I wonder why it happened in the first place, but now I know we can batch-replace stuff in the JSON :) Thanks Rob

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#6 Posted : Friday, March 15, 2024 7:13:43 PM(UTC)
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I'm not sure, but you mentioned reinstalling and using a backed up config.

So I guess it would be something to look at, what is touching that file which could've lost the encoding.

Not to say S+ couldn't be the cause under some odd scenario, just good to keep an open mind to see if some other process isn't preserving the encoding.
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