SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. create a title clip with special characters like "mdash" ("—") and typewriter effect 2. let kdenlive render EXPECTED RESULT all characters (incl. "—") are displayed in typewriter effect OBSERVED RESULT when the special characters are to appear, two carets with question marks are displayed first SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS $ uname -a Linux red 5.10.52-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jul 20 20:32:02 UTC 2021 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ gnome-shell --version GNOME Shell 40.3 $ qmake --version QMake version 3.1 Using Qt version 5.15.2 in /usr/lib ADDITIONAL INFORMATION text sample to reproduce the glitch: "!"§$%&/()=?öäüß…–—" You can watch the glitch in this YT video: https://youtu.be/SWxTHxUYyLY Kdenlive project files: https://tmp.nueb.net/nopurge/kdenlive_typewriter_glitch.zip (~ 1 MB)
Thanks for detailed your report! This will hopefully be fix soon as you can read in BUG 436113 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 436113 ***