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character-map-uwp / Character-Map-UWP

A modern, native UWP replacement for the Win32 Character Map and Windows Font Viewer with flawless high DPI and touch support.
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Box Characters not showing #188

Closed edwinbradford closed 2 years ago

edwinbradford commented 2 years ago

When viewing the font "Source Sans Pro" multiple Box Characters such as U+251C are not listed in the Characters Pane. The same Box Characters are verified as present in the font by viewing it in Windows Character Map under Unicode Subrange "Box Characters".

I became aware of the issue because I was using Source Sans Pro in Notepad++ and was able to enter the characters but not able to browse them in Character Map UWP.

I hope this can be resolved because Character Map UWP is infinitely superior to Windows Character Map but it does need to be accurate for me to use it.

JohnnyWestlake commented 2 years ago

Do you know what version of Source Sans Pro you're using? The ones I have installed show fine 🤔

edwinmesmerise commented 2 years ago

Ah... that's interesting. Thanks to Character Map UWP I was able to locate the font. I thought I'd installed it myself but it looks like on this PC Adobe installed it.

C:\USERS\[MYUSERNAME]\APPDATA\ROAMING\ADOBE\CORESYNC\PLUGINS\LIVETYPE\R\17265

The version string in Character Map UWP is listed as:

Version 3.006;hotconv 1.0.111;makeotfexe 2.5.65597

I don't want Adobe fonts anywhere near my work as their license terms are useless for the kind of work I do so I deactivated all Adobe fonts and downloaded and installed Source Sans Pro from Google Fonts directly. I was immediately able to see all the box characters with no issues.

So the cause is related to either the version of the font Adobe use or something to do with Adobe's installation method.