title: Flutter: Trouble with single characters & custom font
body: <p>I am attempting to use a custom OTF font, <a href="https://github.com/janSame/linja-pona/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">linja pona</a>, in a Flutter application to render certain words in a special script.</p>
  
  <p>I include the font in my project, list it in my pubspec.yaml, and create Text widgets like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Text(word, style: TextStyle(fontFamily: 'LinjaPona', fontSize: 18.0))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And it works perfectly for most words!</p>
  
  <p>In the image below, you can see the symbols properly displayed next to each of these words.</p>
  
  <p>It does not work for single letter words, however. For instance, "a" and "e" are words that also have special script renditions, shown, below, but they don't get rendered in the linja pona font.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any idea what the issue could be? I wonder if it has to do with the Text widget maybe stripping white space away? (If I try to use the linja pona font in a text editor, I type "e" and then have to press "space" to get the word to change into the script version.)</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for any help.</p>
  
  <p>Most words rendered into script correctly:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pt4Lu.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pt4Lu.png" alt="words have character"></a></p>
  
  <p>"a" and "e" also have script renditions:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/CGfAk.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/CGfAk.png" alt="&quot;a&quot; and &quot;e&quot; also have special script renditions"></a></p>