Text viewer that renders wide range of Unicode characters

In my experience on my Windows 10 system, text files with a wide variety of Unicode characters across multiple blocks render faithfully within the "Preview pane" of File Explorer.

For sample text files I've just observed in my installation of DOpus (up-to-date, v12.28), very few such characters outside the "rudimentary" (e.g., Latin-based) blocks render correctly within my Lister's Viewer Pane. In general, short strings comprising characters from what I'll call non-rudimentary blocks render as much longer strings comprising nonsensical substitutions of recognizable (but unrelated and — in this context — meaningless) Unicode characters.

In attempts to rectify this, I first went to Text Viewer Plugin configuration and changed the viewer font from Courier to Code2000; this didn't help.

Next, I clicked on the "Assume UTF-8..." option to enable it. That resulted in a very-different looking failed render — character-for-character substitutions of small "placeholder" boxes for the intended glyphs, plus correct glyphs for a tiny proportion of characters from non-rudimentary blocks.

What if anything can I and/or DOpus developers do to rectify this?

You can use File Explorer's text viewer inside Opus if you want:

  • Go to Preferences / Viewer / Plugins
  • Click the ActiveX + Preview + Office + Web plugin and click Configure
  • Find Windows TXT near the bottom of the Preview Handlers section of the list, and turn it on.
  • (Ignore the warning that appears.)
  • Click OK.

:+1:...Thx.

FWIW our text viewer should work with properly encoded Unicode files, possibly provided the chosen font supports them as well.

If you want, send us some example files and we can take a look.