By the way, gedit works fine.

@PaulVargas Here's what I see - must be system settings? (gedit -- So you're in some form of *buntu at the moment?)

@PaulVargas This is probably an issue with your system fonts than it is with the editor. Check what mono-space font you are using in each and whether it has full support for the character ranges you are using.

@Caleb I don't know. It's a clean installation of Ubuntu (with only English language).

@Davïd @Caleb I'm using ReText 4.1.2 — However, Haroopad displays the text correctly.

While Haroopad requires a new window to view or edit another document, ReText requires another tab.

@PaulVargas You're not the only one with Unicode issues today ;-)

@PaulVargas Ah, right. I was missing a step there: you've got "accents" in your text. Mine didn't. So here's a new comparison - which shows up the same issue for me (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) as you saw. I do most of my simple text-editing in Textadept these days - great editor, imo, which is "Markdown-aware", although it doesn't have "rendered" preview. (I keep Vim for special occasions!)

@Davïd Is it just me or does almost every pane there have issues with LTR/RTL switches? (And good catch on the vim mention.)

@Caleb Was just going to ping you: I'm getting a sense of déjà lu. ;) Btw - that's an impressive TeX doc you've got there (and I'm a big Linux Libertine fan).

@Caleb And yes, LTR/RTL switching issues of different kinds.

@Davïd I knew we'd been through that somewhere. (And there are lots more where that came from‌​! I haven't found anything that holds a candle to the Libertine series for across-the-board versatility.)

Although the Noto series is promising in some respects (you probably noticed I ran across one of your posts about it).

Specifically Noto has a lot of glyph support, but the advanced typesetting features of Libertine far outshine it to date.

@Caleb In its Graphite version, it's my "go-to" font for LibreOffice - love the "type-setting" features, and I find it very attractive, too. Wish the Greek and Hebrew were prettier -- it would then be a one-stop-shop for biblical studies.

^^^ How do you see this answer?

@PaulVargas I don't see an answer.

@Caleb It is true. I can not see it. — Sure @Susan knows something about it.

@PaulVargas I was being rhetorical. I deleted it because it did not even touch on the thing that was asked. Next time go ahead and flag it as NAA when you see stuff like that that doesn't answer the question that was asked.

@PaulVargas Hunh?

@Susan Hello! :-)

@Susan I thought you had performed some work for moderation.

But Caleb did the job. ;-)

@PaulVargas Anyone with 2000 rep or more can see posts even after they are deleted (they show up shaded out in red). Even if Susan had done it I would have been able to see what happened, and in not too long you will too.

@PaulVargas Hi, Paul. FYI - Caleb does that all the time regardless of how you phrase it, but part of the trigger for that “rhetoric” was that it doesn’t really work to say “how to you see...?” even though you should be able to and it makes perfect sense. (Well, it’s possible but it means something different - the answer may be, “I move the rock blocking my view.”) Try instead, “What do you think of....?"

@Caleb I remember. I have that privilege in Stack Overflow. :-D

Although Caleb’s desk is very important to all of us, does that seem like an odd pin to anyone else?

@PaulVargas LOL as @Susan said that isn't actually grammatically the correct question, but I wasn't making fun of your grammar either (my own is poor enough that would be a silly thing to do!). I was just being funny. <delete> Answer? What Answer? <whistles in the wind>

@Susan I've been wondering the same thing all day.

@Caleb I’m guessing a mistake, but I suppose we could ask him.

@Susan Ask who? I assumed it was your mistake, but I suppose it could have been @Davïd. I haven't seen Frank in here and he wasn't enamored of my portrait in sharpie so he seems an unlikely culprit.

@Caleb You can see who pinned in the history. Wow, that’s a first. (That I found something on SE you didn’t know. :-P )

@Susan Humm ... I could not catch it.

@Susan You can? You must be special, I don't see it.

Doh, there it is.

@Caleb I don’t believe you. At the very top, underneath StackExchange.

Yeah.

@Susan What's not to believe? You are special and I wasn't seein' it ;-)

@Caleb Just to prove that no amount of correct English exempts a person from Caleb’s sarcasm.

Anyway, I enjoyed that. Let me savor it. ;-)

I also tricked you into using an un-paired parenthesis. :-P !

> “I was just being funny.” — Caleb

English is murder—a preposterously malleable and tenebrous aggregation of incommensurable syllables masquerading as a language.

@Caleb mailable? But yes, absurd, agreed. It’s ironic that so many people have to learn it as a non-native tongue (possibly more than any other language?), since I imagine it’s one of the most difficult. Among the alphabetic languages at least. I wonder if there’s a way to measure “difficulty.”

@Susan That better? I should have known better than to spell that off the top of my head.

@Susan Yes there is. Age at which children become proficient with them is a common metric.

@Caleb Yes, thank you. Usually I’m just being obnoxious (I...just...can’t...resist!), but that one I actually wasn’t sure about the intention.

@Caleb But I would think learning as a native language is different. English isn’t particularly difficult for children, speaking »» reading. But to learn it as an adult is difficult, it seems. And even to native speakers the irregularity of it is noticeable, though not difficult. Except spelling. :-P

Can I use those as arrows?

I like them a lot.

@Susan @Caleb @PaulVargas ^^^^ That's part 1 of an 8 part series (all available from same account on YouTube). Quite interesting if one finds the English language at all interesting.

@Susan I think you just did. ;)

@Susan Yup.