

By contrast, more modern web formats like XHTML and HTML5 accommodate internationalization, indexing and semantic tags much better.

If your computer doesn't correctly identify the encoding, it might default to thinking that the encoding is Windows Western European, which means that it will display special and international characters as blank spaces or little boxes. The default LibreOffice HTML export format uses obsolete elements like and omits other useful XML elements like specifying the encoding of the document as "UTF-8". The short answer is to ask your friend to share the text in an ODT OpenDocument text file, or use File - Export - File Type: XHTML (*.html, *.xhtml) and so that the document uses a standardized XML format. I just copied those characters from above into LibreOffice Writer, and I also only got place-holding dots.Īnyone an idea where to look, or what to look for? And no, this dot is not a moon symbol that shrunk or something. odt file he had made, and where he can see the symbols (he sent me a screen shot to show me!), when I load it in my LibreOffice Writer, I only get a small dot in that place. odt file, though, the other person can see the symbol in LibreOffice Writer, but I cannot. They show up in Firefox as symbols for the moon phases as intended. Nonetheless, there is a strange difference that we would like to resolve.Īn HTML file has the unicode characters 🌑 🌓 🌕 and 🌗 (🌑 🌓 🌕 and 🌗 ) in it's body. We both have LibreOffice 6.4.6.2 40 (Build:2). I'm running Kubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, the other person I work with has Ubuntu (Not sure but most likely 20.04.2 LTS, too). I posted this in r/techsupport, but maybe it is better placed here.
