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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
But most likely you are using the Wingdings font, which is really not a good idea as its a non unicode font. Use a unicode symbol instead and you should be fine.
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Originally Posted by Denwayz
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I think Toxaris's site for it is the best organized:
http://toxaris.nl/glyphs/symbols.html
And it uses the Symbola font, so you could see what the Unicode specs meant.
(Within the past two years, Chrome/Firefox/other browsers have introduced built-in "color"/"emojified" font of a lot of the wingding characters, so the alanwood site became a bit harder to use. It is now harder to see how the characters would appear in your documents.)
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Originally Posted by Denwayz
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If you have word documents using the legacy fonts:
- Symbol
- Webdings
- Wingdings
- Wingdings 2
- Wingdings 3
... Toxaris's
EPUB Tools addon for Word is THE way to get those characters into Unicode after you export to EPUB.
I remember when I initially gave the idea to Toxaris too... it felt like yesterday:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...62#post3390162
Side Note: Would also be nice if Calibre had the above fonts -> Unicode functionality too. It has also done wonders for all those horrible books where people used the Symbol font and typed abc instead of actual Greek characters αβγ.
The above link points to more detailed research I did on the topic (Unicode 7.0 was when they introduced all those Wingdings characters into Unicode).