[Scribus] Charset problems with Scribus

[Vladimir Zborowski]

Fred Albrecht wrote:
Hi,

> So onwards to the question :
>
> Scribus supports Unicode. Unicode defines both "no break space" 
> (U+00A0) and "narrow no break space" (U+202F). The first of those is 
> also part of the Latin-1 (and Latin-9) charset. However, when I use it 
> in a document, the resulting PDF displays it as a square (I haven't 
> yet tried the second, not knowing whether a special font should be used).
>
> Is there a way around this ? Is it a font issue (I currently use the 
> Bistream Vera Sans font) ?

I made a quick test, and yes, it seems to  be somehow a font issue : I 
mean I got the same problem as you with Vera, but it worked fine with 
Luxi Serif Regular (picked at random).
Vlad