issue: preview panel doesn't show full text when mixing Arabic and English letters

[asaah18]

Mixing Arabic and English letters miss up preview panel as follow:

• Show the symbol �, if the number of characters is even.
• Cut off the last three characters, if the number of characters is odd.

Most probably because of the encoding of Arabic letters. Adding additional characters at the end of the document solves the problem.

Examples:

Editor panel	Preview panel	number of characters	additional characters
أهلا hello	أهلا h	even	No
أهلا hello	أهلا hello	even	Yes
أهلا helo	أهلا	odd	No
أهلا helo	أهلا hello	odd	Yes

Operating System: Windows 10

[tiagoft]

Hello! In addition, I have found that the preview, as well as the export, has some issues when it finds diacritics in general. In Portuguese, it means that á, é, ó and so on cause some weird behavior. What happens is that the preview (as well as the export) starts "lagging". For example, if I write: ÁÁÁÁ, the reviewer renders ÁÁ (that is, as if each diacritic counted as two characters when it is rendered).

Operating system: Windows 10.

[tiagoft]

Interesting update: I recompiled it under Linux and in these conditions the problem does not appear.

[tiagoft]

Ok, I found a possible solution for this.

Ghostwriter uses third-party programs that rely on the system's encoding. Cmark expects UTF-8, but Windows 10 uses something else by default. So, you need to go to control panel / region / change system locale and enable UTF-8 encoding (it says it's Beta but seems to work fine). After that, restart the system and everything works fine.

More info: https://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Microsoft-use-UTF-8-on-Windows-10

Cheers!!