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Re: curly wedge symbol on Windows

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  • Subject: [mg123849] Re: curly wedge symbol on Windows
  • From: Arturas.Acus at tfai.vu.lt
  • Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:11:31 -0500 (EST)
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Thanks everybody for answers.

Following John recipe, the solution would be simply wrap the char by

StyleBox["\:22cf", FontFamily-> "Arial Unicode MS"]

in MakeBoxes output for $SystemID===Windows system only.

Sincerely, Arturas Acus




Quoting John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>:

> It will work fine if you display the character in a font that has  
> the glyph for
> that character.  Under Windows, there's a font called "Arial Unicode  
> MS" which
> has nearly everything, but most of the rest of the fonts are missing broad
> swaths of characters in the Unicode standard.
>
> In fact, if you take a look at the output of the "PhoneticForm" selector for
> WordData[], you'll see that the developer of WordData[] did much the  
> samething
> to get the phonetic characters to display under Windows.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> John Fultz
> jfultz at wolfram.com
> User Interface Group
> Wolfram Research, Inc.
>
> On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:54:59 -0500 (EST), Arturas Acus wrote:
>> Dear Group,
>>
>> I want to use unicode symbols \:2219  (a variant of centered dot)  and
>> \:22cf  (curly wedge) in Mathematica (just enter the strings as written
>> here).
>> Both symbols are listed in unicode math operator block standard.
>>
>> On Linux I have no problems. Unfortunatelly input of the curly wedge
>> \:22cf  in  Windows notebook rezults in an empty square. And I don't
>> know if it possible to resolve the problem at all. Any ideas? Also may
>> be somebody can check how things are on MacOS?
>>
>>
>> Sincerely, Arturas Acus
>
>
>
>






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