From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010816 Description of problem: The GTK+ text widget displays some characters, such as the CR as a dotted box. I've seen this behavior off and on with various GTK+ packages (mostly on from Ximian's packages, and off in Red Hat's). I've never been quite sure what the "correct" behavior was, but its changed. Earlier versions of Red Hat displayed nothing for those characters. Roswell packages display the dotted box. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open a text file containing DOS linefeeds in gedit
This is correct behavior - you have control characters, they show up in the display. It's a bit of a missing feature in the GTK+ text widget that it doesn't handle different types of line terminators. (Fixed in GTK+-2.0.) The reason that this shows up now i that the fonts in XFree86-4.1 have been changed to show boxes for all missing characters rather that empty characters.