Gedit Review (Softpedia.com)

Gedit Review (Softpedia.com)

Yeah, I think that the UTF-8 support is largely dependent on the distro
and libraries being configured correctly more than the editor these days.
On a relatively-untweaked Kubuntu install:

Gedit displayed 5 characters, the a, the ring, the cedila and then two
grave accents.

When I copied from gedit and pasted into this edit window, I got the
correct single character.

Kate had no probems displaying the single character.

Vim displayed a single character with a ring, but no cedila.