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There are several symbols I'd like to type such as a half star that do not show up in the character view, and when shown online or typed in any document in any font, it is displayed as a boxed x.
I tried resetting the fonts and restarting, searching for an extension, and more without luck. How can I make these characters show up?
I have a Macbook Pro (macOS High Sierra 10.13.6).
MacBook Pro
lk771 wrote: There are several symbols I'd like to type such as a half star that do not show up in the character view
That normally just means that you will have to find a font that has them and download and install it on your machine.
Could you give details on exactly where you saw these characters?
This page lists some fonts which have U+2bea Star with Left Half Black, for example.
https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2bea/fontsupport.htm
In this case the fonts are probably not on most machines, so if you use this character in an email or document, it will not show up when you send it to someone else.
lk771 wrote: There are several symbols I'd like to type such as a half star that do not show up in the character view
That normally just means that you will have to find a font that has them and download and install it on your machine.
Could you give details on exactly where you saw these characters?
This page lists some fonts which have U+2bea Star with Left Half Black, for example.
https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2bea/fontsupport.htm
In this case the fonts are probably not on most machines, so if you use this character in an email or document, it will not show up when you send it to someone else.
There are some 140,000 Uncode characters and I don't think any computer comes with fonts that cover all of them them. For those you need to download one of the fonts in the list I gave you earlier, like Symbola or Unifont or Babelstone Han.
Thanks for the quick reply! I first saw these characters on the Google Docs "insert special characters" menu, which is why I assumed they were a standard unicode symbol that should show up. I've included a photo of the half star I'm after as well as the google docs menu which is missing a ton of characters. I'm totally willing to download other fonts, keyboards, whatever. I feel like it should be simple but for some reason web searches are leading me no where.
The chart you posted seems to have the wrong code points for those characters. Here is the right one:
Is it from another OS's emojis?
What Font & OS do you see it on?
Special symbols missing from character view menu & show up as a boxed x when displayed.
