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Not all available special characters have a preview in the special characters dialog
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Description
Issue type
UI bug (incorrect info or interface appearance)
Description with steps to reproduce
Open the Special Characters dialog and check the contents. Some "spaces" exists in dialog which do contain characters and these characters can even be used/inserted in text and show correct in the score.
Some characters were displayed correct in MS 3.6.2:
Same dialog in MS4:
This even leads to some people believing certain characters no longer exists, as they can't tell from looking at the empty positions that the characters they want to use still exist.
Another difference between MS 3.6.2 and MS 4 is that some characters in MS 3.6.2 are displayed as a square, while these now are empty/space in MS 4.
Hope this can be improved.
Supporting files, videos and screenshots
Screenshots included in bug description.
What is the latest version of MuseScore Studio where this issue is present?
4.5.0
Regression
Yes, this used to work in MuseScore 3.x and now is broken
Operating system
Windows 11
Additional context
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Checklist
- This report follows the guidelines for reporting bugs and issues
- I have verified that this issue has not been logged before, by searching the issue tracker for similar issues
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- I have attempted to identify the root problem as concisely as possible, and have used minimal reproducible examples where possible
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue in the Special Characters dialog on Windows 11 using MuseScore 4.5.0, then compare its contents with MuseScore 3.6.2 and the attached screenshots. Trace how the dialog renders available characters and verify that every available character has a distinguishable preview, including characters that previously appeared as squares.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop, frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100