Re: why don't my insert symbols work?

On 7 Oct 2005, at 20:56, Francis James Franklin wrote:
> On 7 Oct 2005, at 15:02, Laurel Jones wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> So, basically, why are my symbols not coming into abiword as what
>> they say they
>> are and is there any fix?!
>
> 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.

The real bug here, if you're interested, is that the Insert Symbol
dialog wasn't displaying the correct symbols in some cases, and the
accented characters in particular don't belong there.

If you select a different font (a normal font, not Symbol or Wingdings
or etc.) and switch off the "Remap glyphs for symbols" check-box then
you can see some accented characters which will insert into he document
correctly - but I really do recommend using the OS X Character Palette
(or one of the methods Hub suggests) for doing this.

I accept that this is not a very user-friendly dialog, and I apologise
for that. The problem for me is that when I created the dialog I didn't
know all of the various symbols that needed to go in there. Today I
have updated this and I think it is correct now (at least for the
Symbol font).

Regards, Frank

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Received on Sat Oct 8 18:09:54 2005