Text: Special Characters: Circle doesn't meshed #116252

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Iliya Katushenock · 2023-12-16T15:51:44+01:00

Iliya Katushenock commented

2023-12-16 15:51:44 +01:00

System Information
Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 64 Bits
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.6.0 NVIDIA 527.56

Blender Version
Broken: version: 4.1.0 Alpha, branch: main, commit date: 2023-12-14 23:25, hash: c8aecac00131
Worked: (newest version of Blender that worked as expected)

Short description of error
Circle special characters is not render by text ui and not meshed in text object.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error

Create Text object.
Go to edit mode.
Text -> Special Characters -> Circle.
Nothing happened.

**System Information** Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 64 Bits Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.6.0 NVIDIA 527.56 **Blender Version** Broken: version: 4.1.0 Alpha, branch: main, commit date: 2023-12-14 23:25, hash: `c8aecac00131` Worked: (newest version of Blender that worked as expected) **Short description of error** Circle special characters is not render by text ui and not meshed in text object. ![image](/attachments/40043eda-966b-44fb-86ec-203551f2199c) ![image](/attachments/5f3d7acc-21a4-4f46-87bf-30e38869ae60) **Exact steps for others to reproduce the error** 1. Create Text object. 2. Go to edit mode. 3. Text -> Special Characters -> Circle. Nothing happened.

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kunxl.gg commented

2023-12-16 17:06:57 +01:00

May I work on this issue?

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Harley Acheson self-assigned this 2023-12-16 17:18:51 +01:00

Harley Acheson commented

2023-12-16 17:42:13 +01:00

May I work on this issue?

You may!

Note that this might be different that you expect. The first hint is in that popup hint where it looks to be inserting nothing:

The items in this list are here in the source blender\scripts\startup\bl_ui\space_view3d.py in VIEW3D_MT_edit_font_chars with this one wanting it add a "Circle" with "\u008A".

Although it is possible to find some online resources that show a character at U+008A it is not a circle. In fact it is meant to be nothing displayable as this is in a range of control characters. It is specifically in the "C1 Controls" range (U+0080 - U+009F) you can see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin-1_Supplement

To fix this particular problem with the least amount of change it would make sense to try some really old version of Blender and see what character used to come out. Then change this to a proper Unicode character that matches. Like U+25EF, which is a large unfilled circle ◯.

A few unrelated things also stick out in that code area. "u00A5" is described as "Japanese Yen" when that character is also used for the Chinese yuan currency so should just be change to the symbol name "Yen" without the "Japanese" part.

Similarly "Spanish Question Mark" and "Spanish Exclamation Mark" aren't really correct as these are specifically the inverted versions and they are technically used in some other languages like Asturian and Waray. I'd change the descriptions to "Inverted Question Mark" and "Inverted Exclamation Mark".

"German S" is a bit sus too since that is really the "Eszett".

When this section of code was made we didn't reliably show these characters in the interface, but now these are all guaranteed to work. So these text descriptions could all include the character that they will insert.

Note that we generally don't like this "Special Characters" menu and have talked about removing it or replacing it with something more useful. So I would avoid proposing additions to this. But a PR that makes these small corrections would be welcome in the mean time.

> May I work on this issue? You may! Note that this might be different that you expect. The first hint is in that popup hint where it looks to be inserting nothing: ![image](/attachments/3c29bb49-9e24-4b57-9698-8caa834df4b1) The items in this list are here in the source `blender\scripts\startup\bl_ui\space_view3d.py` in `VIEW3D_MT_edit_font_chars` with this one wanting it add a "Circle" with "\u008A". Although it is possible to find some online resources that show a character at U+008A it is not a circle. In fact it is meant to be nothing displayable as this is in a range of control characters. It is specifically in the "C1 Controls" range (U+0080 - U+009F) you can see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin-1_Supplement To fix this particular problem with the least amount of change it would make sense to try some [really old version of Blender](https://download.blender.org/release/) and see what character used to come out. Then change this to a proper Unicode character that matches. Like U+25EF, which is a large unfilled circle ◯. A few unrelated things also stick out in that code area. "u00A5" is described as "Japanese Yen" when that character is also used for the Chinese yuan currency so should just be change to the symbol name "Yen" without the "Japanese" part. Similarly "Spanish Question Mark" and "Spanish Exclamation Mark" aren't really correct as these are specifically the inverted versions and they are technically used in some other languages like Asturian and Waray. I'd change the descriptions to "Inverted Question Mark" and "Inverted Exclamation Mark". "German S" is a bit sus too since that is really the "Eszett". When this section of code was made we didn't reliably show these characters in the interface, but now these are all guaranteed to work. So these text descriptions could all include the character that they will insert. Note that we generally don't like this "Special Characters" menu and have talked about removing it or replacing it with something more useful. So I would avoid proposing additions to this. But a PR that makes these small corrections would be welcome in the mean time.

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Text: Special Characters: Circle doesn't meshed #116252