The character viewer no longer shows the complete unicode map, as it had in SnowLeopard. How do I get it back?

Hi Tom,

Sure, having an overview of all available glyphs in a font for a particular Unicode code plane would be more convient, but the "Font Variation" panel (in the lower right corner) does give you access to a glyph in a (n available) font.

So Sally's cry for help can at least partially answered as she wrote:

I am unhappy: I need to be able to access alternative letters and symbols, not just European vowels

In any case, as a multilingual specialist relying heavily on Unicode support, I also mis the Glyph view in the character view dearly. I too would like it to return sooner than later. So, no discussion there ;-)

regards,

/Twan

The very last place I would think to look for a font's full character set is in, of all places, Font Book. That's why it's not in the Character Viewer anymore. Someone at Apple probably saw it as redundant.

Since Font Book is one of the VERY first things to get deleted from any Mac I use, I didn't even know it had that option. Seems like an obtuse place to move it to, to me. A font manager is for controlling which fonts are on or off. The Character Viewer is where glyph selection belongs. Viewing glyphs by font needs to be put back in.

Twan van der Schoot wrote:

So Sally's cry for help can at least partially answered as she wrote:

I am unhappy: I need to be able to access alternative letters and symbols, not just European vowels

In her second post, you will see it actually concerns the "many symbol/dingbat fonts" which she is unable to use. Fixing that requires the View = Glyph option.

In any case, she marked it solved 2 years ago.

sallykam wrote:

Is that legal, Tom?

I don't know, but I also keep a copy of the 10.6 version of that app and have sent it to people in the past.

For anyone who owns a copy of Snow Leopard, it certainly should be. You have a legal license to use it, not "borrowing" the disk, or portion of an OS you don't own.