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Old 11-03-2018, 07:38 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Frenchguy View Post
They are not images but windings. I thought I would find them then in the list of special characters menu edit)
What you are looking for is the "Arrow" Block in Unicode.

Those characters are different forms of "Double Arrow":

⇔⇕⇐⇖⇑⇗⇒⇘⇓⇙

Their looks may change completely dependent on font. If you want a specific look, you'll have to embed your specific font.

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Originally Posted by Frenchguy View Post
They are not images but windings.
All characters from the Symbol/Wingdings/Webdings fonts have Unicode equivalents now. I wrote about that in another post (with links to other helpful sites).

I would highly recommend you stop using those ancient fonts in your documents as they are not Unicode compatible.

If someone doesn't have those specific fonts installed (like e-readers), it shows up as gibberish. For example, if you used the Wingdings font to type your document:

Q LOOKS like:
(Airplane)

& LOOKS like:
🕮 (Book)

7 LOOKS like:
🖮 (Wired Keyboard)

In an ebook would look like "Q & 7" + Text-to-Speech would read "Q and 7".

Side Note: Earlier this year, Kovid added functionality to Calibre to change Symbol/Wingdings/Webdings fonts into their Unicode equivalent.

So if you use those ancient fonts in your DOCXs, they'll automatically be converted when going to EPUB.

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