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Recently, having upgraded to Mac OS Sonoma (14.7.1), I am having problems with various ornament fonts (dingbats) on my Mac. I understand that the MAC operating system has changed the way glyphs are handled. In the "old days" glyphs were assigned to letters but no longer. Supposedly, if you bring up the 'character viewer' and select the category of 'dingbats', you will see the ornament fonts and can insert from there; but this is not working on my computer: most of them are not listed and ones that are have only some or none (!) of the glyphs shown and those few shown will not insert into a document. Font book thinks these fonts are validated. In font book, I can select a glyph in the "repertoire" view, hit the 'copy' button, but only rarely will the glyph actually be able to be pasted in to a document. Fonts that have stopped working include Bodoni ornaments, Type embellshments, Hoefler Text ornaments, and some others. Because searching on line does not bring up a lot of help, I am wondering if something odd is happening with my computer? I'd really appreciate any help or suggestions. Thanks. Tobias
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“As a means of writing sentences, Wingdings fails — but that was never its purpose. It was created to be used as a unique tool for the pre-internet era. It was akin to emojis, but with even more utility.” There also is a feature article on the subject. -
Unicode is changing, adding tons more icons and smilies. But what's new and why? Tom Scott takes us through the improvements.
