bullet chars in Linux?

[Richard Gaskin]

On Mac and Win, using $#149; in htmlText produces a bullet char.  In
Linux, however, that gets rendered as a non-renderable character (the
rectangle with numbers in it in Ubuntu).

When I paste a block of text that has a bullet in it into a field and
get the htmlText, the bullet is shown to be "•"

- BUT -

When I set the htmlText of a field to a string which contains "•"
it gets rendered as a double-quote char.

Whiskey tango?

How do I get bullet chars in Linux, and why would reading htmlText
behave so differently from setting it?

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  Richard Gaskin
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