Sigil not rendering non Latin characters

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Sigil version: 0.7.3
OS: Windows XP service pack 3

Issue: non English characters appear as square boxes in code view. 

I have ebook that has non English (Gujarati) text. Epub uses embedded fonts. In 
book view the text is correctly rendered.

In code view, the non-English characters are displayed as squares.

The same ebook on one Windows 7 machine renders correctly in code view. Sigil 
on Mac too shows correct rendering.

Both Windows XP and 7 Sigil have Consolas as font for code view under 
preference. For extra protection, I copied the Consolas font files from Windows 
7 to XP in case XP had old Consolas fonts.

It appears that Sigil uses other than font specified in the preference section 
to determine what fonts to use and how to render them.

Would appreciate any hint on what to look for and how to make XP render the 
same manner as Windows 7 machine.

PS: On another Windows 7 machine, same square boxes appear. It means the issue 
is not between XP and Windows 7 but some configuration at Windows level. 

Will be happy to include epub but Google claims that attachment storage quota 
has exceeded.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mash...@gmail.com on 18 Aug 2013 at 7:49

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Original comment by john@nachtimwald.com on 3 Nov 2013 at 2:26

• Changed state: Closed

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We believe this problem is due to library used by Sigil. The problem does not 
appear in older Sigil version (0.6.2)

Original comment by mas...@gmail.com on 6 Nov 2013 at 12:09