Andrew McIntyre Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 I am puzzled by the fact that I am unable to access special characters in Affinity Publisher using the normal short-cuts. For instance Alt+0176 for ° and Alt+0248 for ø etc. If I type these combinations directly into Publisher I get a thin rectangle in portrait mode containing an X. I have been getting round this by copying and pasting via the Microsoft Character Map which seems an odd thing to have to do - all of my other software copes with this without any issues. Am I doing something wrong or missing a vital setting somewhere? Windows 10 Home edition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 I would expect the rectangle with the X to mean that the character doesn't exist in the font you're using. But then I don't know why the Windows Character Map approach would work. By the way, I would use Publisher's Glyph Browser, rather than Character Map. View > Studio > Glyph Browser. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 7 hours ago, Andrew McIntyre said: For instance Alt+0176 for ° and Alt+0248 for ø etc. Works fine for me using the numeric keypad (Windows) Try using Arial font - if it still does not work for you further investigation would be needed Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew McIntyre Posted June 1, 2020 Author Share Posted June 1, 2020 Well, the Glyph Browser certainly works (thanks Walt!). However I have just run a short test using the three Affinity programs alongside my OpenOffice word processor using three fonts - Arial, Times New Roman and Roboto. Open Office recognises the short cuts instantly and inserts the appropriate 'special characters', but none of the Affinity programs do. They either don't respond at all or insert a rectangle. I get the same result with my Office PC as with my Laptop, so there does seem to be a bug somewhere in the Affinity Suite. Yet the puzzling thing is that it evidently doesn't affect you Carl! Windows 10 Home edition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff DWright Posted June 22, 2020 Staff Share Posted June 22, 2020 HI @Andrew McIntyre, Does your laptop have a separate numeric pad or is it part of the main keyboard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew McIntyre Posted June 22, 2020 Author Share Posted June 22, 2020 It has a separate numeric pad - which as mentioned earlier works fine with Open Office and other software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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