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How To - Characters and Symbols
Milli Santos
La Princesse
Join date: 12 Oct 2006
Posts: 112
07-01-2007 21:22
Someone asked this question today in a chat group I'm a member of....

"Can anyone please tell me why this ❷ shows up as a number on one of my characters and as a weird symbol on the other? I'm on two different computers if that makes a difference."

That ❷ is apparently a filled in circle with a 2 in the middle. Well, for me, that shows as a dot, a bit like an apostrophe. On my work pc, where I'm posting this, it shows as an empty square. So, it seems I am having the same problem as they are. I've noticed it quite a lot in general chat from non-english speakers.

Can anyone advise how I can get these to appear as the symbols they are supposed to be?
Kyrah Abattoir
cruelty delight
Join date: 4 Jun 2004
Posts: 2,786
07-01-2007 21:56
one of them doesn't have unicode compatible fonts installed
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Milli Santos
La Princesse
Join date: 12 Oct 2006
Posts: 112
07-02-2007 19:51
I googled "install unicode compatible fonts" and came back with countless different fonts to install. How do I know what to install or is there a package somewhere that I can download for the right things? I'm really just after these symbols, rather than language-other-than-English packages.
Milli Santos
La Princesse
Join date: 12 Oct 2006
Posts: 112
07-04-2007 23:12
I found out I just had to install Arial Unicode font. Thanks!