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Old 11-04-2018, 06:16 PM   #8
Frenchguy
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
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.



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.
Thanks
I did not notice I could use the unicode equivalent
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