![]() That means dropping the Windows only Symbol font, in favor of a cross-platform font like Segoe UI Symbol. Retain the current mapping to Greek or math symbols but replace what’s typed with a Unicode character value as well as a font change. ![]() The replaced characters should have Unicode values so they are compatible with a much wider range of symbol fonts. The whole system should be Unicode compliant. It’s long overdue for an upgrade from Microsoft and not just so it works with modern collaborative documents. This part of Word doesn’t appear to have been looked at for a long, long time perhaps more than a decade. Or make sure Font Embedding is on for that document so the Symbol font travels with the document. For example, make a Pi sign using the Ctrl + Shift + Q trick, then change to Segoe UI Symbol and the letter P will appear.īe careful using Ctrl + Shift + Q on collaborating documents because you can’t be sure what fonts will be used on other computers. That means if you change the font on a character using Symbol font, you’ll get a very different character or nothing at all. Like some other old fonts (Wingdings and Webdings), Symbol doesn’t follow the Unicode character numbering.
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