[Scribus] Disappearing styles and fonts

[Roger]

Scribus uses unicode as the character set. This means that it is important
> to make sure the font used really have a glyph for the character code you
> are using. Remember, all that is in the Scribus file is a charcter code (a
> number). What is displayed on the screen depends on which glyph the font in
> use has for that character code.
>
> I think it sounds as if you have switched to a font which doesn't even have
> placeholder glyphs for the characters you are typing.


Ah! Yes that explains my findings.
I had similar problems but not with Trebuchet, I changed the font and the
problem disappeared without knowing what I had done.
I can't use webdings or wingdings.
I use 1.3.3.10 in FC8
Thanks
Roger