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Just had this come up at work --- needed a checkbox in Microsoft Word --- oddly the solution to entering it was to use the numeric keypad, hold down the alt key
by WillAdams 3y ago
Just had this come up at work --- needed a checkbox in Microsoft Word --- oddly the solution to entering it was to use the numeric keypad, hold down the alt key and then type out 128504 which yielded a check mark when the Arial font was selected _and_ unlike Insert Symbol and other techniques didn't change the font to Segoe UI Symbol or some other font with that symbol.
Oddly, even though the Word UI indicated it was Arial, exporting to a PDF and inspecting that revealed that Segoe UI Symbol was being used.
As I've noted in the past, "If typography was easy, Microsoft Word wouldn't be the foetid mess which it is."
- uxp8u61q 3y agoThat's unrelated to unicode. The checkmark symbol just isn't in the Arial font, so Word just falls back to a font that has it - Segoe UI. You've found a bug where Word still thinks it's Arial. But this is something that would happened no matter what encoding you choose for your characters.
- neerajsi 3y agoI don't know this for a fact, but it's possible that the text run is logically considered to be Arial and the fallback could be handled as just a rendering step, rather than being encoded in the document. Doing it that way could allow the text to render on different versions of Arial, some of which do have a checkbox char, at the risk of the appearance and layout changing depending on which fonts are installed.
- WillAdams 3y agoThe weird thing is, it didn't work thus for other numbers for used for this or similar characters.