Re: why don't my insert symbols work?

On 7 Oct 2005, at 15:02, Laurel Jones wrote:
> I'm using abi word 2.2.10 on a Mac OS X.4.2
>
> I've opened an openoffice document and am trying to
> insert a french character whose name I forget (it is
> an a with a hat on it). Anyway, I go to insert symbol
> and there is my little a with its hat but when I
> insert I get a totally different character. This
> happens with most of my symbols. I tried saving the
> document as abiword doc but the same thing still
> happens.
>
> So, basically, why are my symbols not coming into
> abiword as what they say they are and is there any
> fix?!

Hi,

I hadn't realised how bad this bug still was. I'll take another look.
Most symbols should work, but not all. Anyway, the OS X Character
Palette can be used to insert accented characters.

Frank

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Received on Fri Oct 7 22:00:37 2005