Just upgraded to Lion. The character viewer, which previously allowed one to see the entire unicode map for each font, no longer does this. It shows only certain kinds of symbols, not all of them. I am unhappy: I need to be able to access alternative letters and symbols, not just European vowels. Can someone help me?
Check out the gear in the upper left corner. Customize the list to include more.
Thanks for responding. I had checked the gear which let me access the unicode maps for many Asian languages and ideographs, but not the maps for my typefaces/fonts (I know there is a distinction). I have many symbol/dingbat fonts and I am now unable to use them.
sallykam wrote:
but not the maps for my typefaces/fonts
Yes, Lion Character Viewer has left out the View = Glyph option present in Snow Leopard. I also think it is a big mistake. Tell them to put it back via feedback when they add the option for 10.7:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
There may be some other app you can use for this, but I have not had a chance to look for one yet. Popchar?
sallykam wrote:
I had checked the gear which let me access the unicode maps for many Asian languages and ideographs,
There is also an option there called Unicode, which lets you access everything in that character set just like the old Character Viewer.
I have sent them a note; I might send more. I have checked popchar, but somehow it rankles to pay for an app I had for free in the previous iteration. Thank you for the suggestion and the link.
Show the Character Viewer in the menu bar
Apple menu > System Preferences,
Click Language & Text
Click Input Sources.
Select the Keyboard & Character Viewer checkbox.
You can now open the Character Viewer from the Input menu in the menu bar (looks like a flag or character-- PS: it doesn't look familiar. looks like a wierd little box next to the power icon).
Yes, but in that discussion from 6 months ago nobody had any problem finding the Character Viewer. The issue is that a particular feature of that Viewer (View = Glyph) present in 10.6 is missing in 10.7.
not sure what your point is tom, but I was trying to help people like me who couldn't find the character map.
worldville wrote:
I was trying to help people like me who couldn't find the character map.
That's fine, but instead of adding onto to a discussion about a different issue that was solved and ended a long time ago, it would be best to post a new topic with a subject like How to Find the Character Map or contribute a User Tip:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/user_tips_library_documents
Tom, do you have any idea if this problem will be fixed in Mountain Lion? I have so many lovely fonts whose little glyphs are unusable now. Alas.
sallykam wrote:
Tom, do you have any idea if this problem will be fixed in Mountain Lion?
I suspect that Character Viewer will not be any different in ML than it is in L.
This is so odd, because, back in the day, Mac was the preferred platform for font creation. And now, many chararcters created on the Mac are inaccessible on the Mac. Thank you, though, for your response.
sallykam wrote:
This is so odd, because, back in the day, Mac was the preferred platform for font creation. And now, many chararcters created on the Mac are inaccessible on the Mac.
It is just that standards have changed. Characters should always be accessible as long as you conform to the Unicode standard in making your font.
Hi Sally,
I is still there, but a bit hidden.
1. Open the character viewer
2. Open the gear menu in the top left corner and select 'customize list...'
3. Go down to the bottom of the list 'Select categories...' and open 'Code Tables'.
4. Mark 'Unicode' for inclusion and click 'Done'.
Now open in the character viewer window the freshly added 'Unicode' category.
It is a bit cramped, but there it is: the old and trusted character viewer with all unicode categories and associated font variations.
good luck!
regards,
Twan
Twan van der Schoot wrote:
I is still there, but a bit hidden.
It is a bit cramped, but there it is: the old and trusted character viewer with all unicode categories and associated font variations.
But it is missing the View = Glyph option for each font, which is what this thread is actually about.
The character viewer no longer shows the complete unicode map, as it had in SnowLeopard. How do I get it back?
