Different behaviour of TextEditor on macOS and Windows

[machey]

Hi!

I have a TextEditor that is used to display end edit an integer with UTF-8 degree sign. On Windows everything works perfectly, but on macOS I get some weird additional character - it looks like "90°.
Is there any difference in the way in which TextEditor and its listener works on these two systems?

Happy holidays

[jules]

Sounds more like a UTF encoding mistake than anything that the TextEditor might be doing wrong

[jules]

FYI, make sure you’ve read this:

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