Package: gedit Version: 3.38.1-1 Reproduce: Create a UTF-8-encoded file containing the following four symbols: Latin small A, followed by space, followed by open colon, followed by space, and terminated by Latin small B: a ⦂ b In hex, the contexts of the file is this: 61 20 E2 A6 82 20 62 On my machine, gedit shows more spacing before the open colon than after it; cf. the attachment (also uploaded to https://i.imgur.com/qJ6MTCd.png http://i.imgur.com/qJ6MTCd.png ). I can't imagine what could be the rationale for the current spacing. On the contrary, either the spacing should be equal around ⦂ (which corresponds to viewing the open colon as a mathematical relation) or the space before ⦂ should be lesser that the space after ⦂ (which corresponds to viewing the open colon as a mathematical punctuation). I would be happy if my bug report finds attention. Thanks in advance, Peter