In a Word document, I'm trying to get a simple right arrow symbol in Times New Roman. However, pasting it in from the Character Viewer inserts it as Arial Italic. Changing it back to Times in Word has no effect - it goes back to Arial immediately. How can I get around this? [more inside]
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Help me see unicode fonts on my browser (Firefox 3.6.10). Yes, I've seen this and this, but they don't help me. I need step by step instructions for idiots. [more inside]
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How do you avoid the "undisplayable character boxes" you see when encountering a new or unknown language script? [more inside]
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Is there an Outlook setting to tell it to substitute a glyph from an alternate font if the current display font doesn't have a glyph for a particular character? [more inside]
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There are a couple fixed-width Unicode Arabic fonts out there. The ones I've seen are pretty hard on the eyes, though, especially at small sizes. Any suggestions for a really readable one? [more inside]
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Roman IPA fonts and the non-roman characters who love them. [more inside]
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How serious are intersecting coordinates in a font? [more inside]
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Font recommendation to solve a MS Word --> QuarkXPress issue? [more inside]
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(Free) Unicode-compatible Hebrew modern handwriting fonts [more inside]
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