Empty bullets and checkmarks no longer being display

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Our company has an application that worked fine with Notes Client 6.5.1. The application has a rich text field that display check marks whether the check mark is empty or has a value. In 8.5.1, the check mark is never displayed unless you add a space after the checkmark. Has anyone else experienced this problem and hopefully has a solution. To manually put a space after all the checkmarks is a big manual effort.

The easiest way to see this is to create an email in Notes Client 6.5.1 with 3 bullet items and leave the 2nd bullet blank. All 3 bullets display. If you do the same thing in Notes Client 8.5.1, then bullet 1 & bullet 3 display but bullet 2 does not display.

Is this a bug or something that Lotus has intentionally done.

Any help would be greatly appricated.

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Subject: *this is “feature” in 8.5 (ie, IBM planned for it to work this way…)

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Subject: Yes, I’ve seen it too…

I found an item in the IBM KB about it, but they considered it user error (LO47813: CHECKBOX NOT SHOWING UNLESS FOLLOWED BY TEXT)

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Subject: Empty Bullets and Checkmarks

Thanks for the quick response. This is something that ran for years on 6.5.6 and probably earlier releases and now all of a sudden it is a user error. Doesn’t make any sense to me.