Red dots keep getting insierted in words in documents

[AllTheseAppsSuck]

Operating system

Windows

Joplin version

3.2.13

Sync target

Joplin Server

Editor

Markdown Editor

What issue do you have?

Upon restarting the application, I find notes that I hand wrote have these weird red dots inserted in words in random places (see screenshot). I had it set to rich editor only before exiting, and when switching back found it like this. Anyone had this?

Screenshots

[AllTheseAppsSuck]

It's fairly easy to fix with find and replace (CTRL+F) by copying one of thse symbols and removing all of them. But it's annoying.

[laurent]

This is very strange. Could you export one example as a JEX file so that we can check?

And do you have any plugin?

[AllTheseAppsSuck]

I cant now as I have already fixed it for that note (we're using the documentation actively), but next time it happens I can.

Here's the plugins Im using:

[personalizedrefriger]

@AllTheseAppsSuck

I had it set to rich editor only before exiting, and when switching back found it like this.

One thing to try might be (temporarily) disabling plugins that change how notes render — it's possible that one or more of them conflicts with the Rich Text Editor. I think this includes:

• Typograms
• Spoilers
• Paginator?
• Embedded notes?
• GitHub Alerts
• Draw.io
• Code-clipboard

[dpoulton]

You say that the note was hand written but did that include pasting this text in? I ask as the below thread mentions the CodeMirror (Markdown) editor using red dots to indicate non-printing characters, like zero-width spaces and things like that.

What is this red dot?

The red dot might be from the CodeMirror v6 highlightSpecialChars extension. By default, it replaces several invisible characters (e.g. zero-width spaces) with a placeholder. Before the recent updates, Joplin desktop used CodeMirror 5 by default, which may have replaced a different set of special characters. For example, CodeMirror 5 shows a red dot instead of a null character, but might not show a replacement character in other circumstances where CodeMirror 6 does. Note: For comparison, it's…

[bwat47]

To identify the special character, you can try opening the note in an external text editor and see what it shows in plaintext.

If it's some kind of invisible character, you can try using this site to identify exactly what the character is: What Unicode character is this ? (I use this at work to identify troublesome invisible unicode control characters)

[dpoulton]

@bwat47

you can try using this site to identify exactly what the character is

That's a simple site for identifying invisible characters. Now bookmarked!

@AllTheseAppsSuck

From looking at the screenshot again it appears that the dots could be marking syllables. The adding of invisible markers after syllables can be used in some documents / web pages for assisting screen reader software.