On Wednesday, February 9, 2011, John M. Dlugosz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Using the "used fonts" extension, I found a few things, including use of 
> "Wingdings" of all things!  Searching for that, I found it used in "Note for 
> Mac users", which is present in every document and comes from the template.
>
> It turns out that the "Command Key" symbol is typed using the 'z' character 
> and changed to Wingdings font.  My understanding is that this font is 
> including (only) on Microsoft Windows.  So, the Mac users whom this is aimed 
> at will see a 'z' instead, or perhaps something goofy as it gets substituted 
> with some random symbol font.  Is it actually visible on people's Mac's?
>
> The character '⌘' encoded as U+2318.  I see that it is not present in the 
> Liberation fonts used by the main text, but it shows up anyway in the 
> document.  I presume this is some kind of font fall-back ability.  So, at 
> least using the standard Unicode character will show up even if the needed 
> font is absent!  And what font to use?
>
> Linux Biolinum Kb has it, but in a "key cap" outline.  That may be OK for 
> this specific usage, though it doesn't match the other key-typing 
> explanations.  I also note it is in some of the DejaVu fonts, which appear to 
> have been used in previous versions of the OOo documents, and Symbola, 
> available at <http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/> and "free for any use".
>
> I think we should change this in the Template and throughout.  Thoughts?
>
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That character shows correctly on my Mac.

Jean

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