How to show diacritic accent mark in WPF RichTextBox

Question

Inside my WPF application there is a RichTextBox and by showing its text content in VS Immediate Window there is a f character with a circumflex accent, but in the display window only renders the character without the diacritic.

This two methods set and retrieve the RTB content:

Function rtbText(rtb As RichTextBox) As String
    Dim txtRng As New TextRange(rtb.Document.ContentStart, rtb.Document.ContentEnd)
    Return txtRng.Text
End Function
Sub rtbSetText(rtb As RichTextBox, s As String)
    Dim flowDoc As New FlowDocument
    Dim r As New Run(s)
    Dim p As New Paragraph
    p.Inlines.Add(r)
    flowDoc.Blocks.Add(p)
    rtb.Document = flowDoc
End Sub

The Immediate Window reports for RTB control rtbString:

?rtbtext(rtbString)

"f̂(x,y,t)=1/(n*h_x*h_y*h_t)¡∑_i=1^n▒k(x−X_i)/(h_x)×k(y−Y_i)/(h_y)×k(t−T_i)/(h_t)" & vbCrLf

The first character f̂ is present in rtbString but it is not showing properly:

Answer 1

This is the font family related problem. Try to set it, for example, to Segoe UI:

<RichTextBox FontFamily="Segoe UI" FontSize="22" ...

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When a font doesn't contain the required character, the system tries to adapt the current font and does not always get the expected result.