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Symbols not showing in Gestures
Mercedes Santiago
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Join date: 15 Apr 2008
Posts: 9
01-12-2009 14:28
Hey i am not sure why, but suddenly i am not able to see the cute lil Gesture Symbols.
(from character mapping)

It just comes up as Dots. Can anyone help me with this please?
Dante Tucker
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Join date: 8 Aug 2006
Posts: 806
01-12-2009 23:43
I am unsure as to why it would stop working after properly working.

Though I can say that it can be fixed by installer proper character support. If windows then this will be a download from microsoft.com, though someone else will have to come along and link the proper packages, as I don't know off the top of my head.
Kurth Milos
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Join date: 10 Oct 2007
Posts: 17
Me too, same problem
02-07-2009 13:14
I am using XP. I was able to see the extended characters (alt + num key) until recently. It is not a font problem (I think) because I can see those in other applications, just no longer in SL. Anyone got a clue why these stopped working in SL?
SuezanneC Baskerville
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02-07-2009 13:30
What version of SL viewer?

When you do Advanced, Debug Settings, FontSansSerifFallback, what font filenames are shown there?

Seems like I read about a bug in some viewer relating to extended characters.
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Kurth Milos
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Join date: 10 Oct 2007
Posts: 17
Version and Font
02-07-2009 13:50
I am using 1.21.6 viewer.

MSGOTHIC.TTC;gulim.ttc;simhei.ttf;ArialUni.ttf is the font listed in Advanced>Debug>FontSansSerifFallback.
Katheryne Helendale
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Join date: 5 Jun 2008
Posts: 2,187
02-07-2009 15:08
I thought I was the only one suffering this issue, or that it was a Linux-specific issue. I, too, cannot see many of the extended characters used in many gestures. The funny part is, if I directly copy/paste the gesture's text, when someone uses it, to a text editor, they all show up fine; so it is not a matter of system support for the font or unicode in general. It seems to be specifically a viewer issue. Currently running viewer version 1.22.8, though I've had this problem for as long as I can remember.
Kurth Milos
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Join date: 10 Oct 2007
Posts: 17
Characters Show in Other apps
02-18-2009 07:22
Yeah. It's not my computer also, because I can see those characters in any other apps I have tried. But sometime in the last month or so SL quit showing them.
Kurth Milos
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Join date: 10 Oct 2007
Posts: 17
Any other ideas
03-07-2009 18:09
Anyone got any ideas what I can to to see extended characters in SL?
Day Oh
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Join date: 3 Feb 2007
Posts: 1,257
03-07-2009 18:51
I had that issue before and I believe installing the font arialuni.ttf fixed it (http://www.buddhismtoday.com/software/ARIALUNI.TTF)
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Kurth Milos
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Thank You!!!
03-07-2009 22:58
Hurrah!!!!! Thanks. That did it. Installed the font and now I have the extended characters in SL.