How do I get Word to recognize new characters?????

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On the other hand, Word DOES recognize something called Bopomofo…
bopomofo.jpg

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Click the ‘quote’ button to the right of the post title.

By the “big green grid” I mean the thing you can see in the first post of:

Postby Bhikkhu Pesala » Fri Jan 17, 2014 1:11 pm

you know, what you see when you are trying in insert characters.

:slight_smile:

Aha — that ‘green grid’! :smiley: It’s actually the cell backgrounds which are green, rather than the grid itself, and even those are only green for the characters which are already in the font. :wink:

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You seem to be choosing the Supplementary Private Use Areas (A and B) which are both blank for me; i.e. no characters shown, and no green cell backgrounds. Until now, in my relatively short time as a user of FontCreator (less than a year) I’ve only ever visited the main Private Use Area, not the supplementary ones.

I do just as Erwin described: I enter the values in the ‘Codepoint(s)’ edit box. OK, so you can actually double-click on the cells, but if you do that you get a comma-separated list (which isn’t much help for a range of values like $E000 - $F8FF).

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Read all about it here: Zhuyin fuhao.

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Hello all.

  1. I think my Primary Private Areas (that sounds hilarious!) are full.

  2. Whether or not there is a character or a blank space in the pigeonhole in the Big Green Grid in the Insert Character window, you can double-click on any space and the program will put the HEX names in for you, so you don’t have to type them yourself. (That’s right, even if the pigeonhole is blank.)
    This is handy sometimes, although I can see typing them in is also handy, especially when there’s a whole string and you use a hyphen between the numbers.

  3. THIS WHOLE THING TURNS OUT TO BE AN MS WORD PROBLEM.
    Word recognizes some languages (i.e. you can find them in the Word Insert Symbol Table once you have “made them exist”.)
    Other ones IT DOES NOT.
    Syriac, for example, DOES NOT WORK.
    Hangul Jamo and Hangul Compatibilty Jamo work, as does Bopomofo, but Unified Canadian Aboriginal DOES NOT.
    AND SO ON.

So I just went through and tested a bunch of foreign language sets and found the ones that “work”.
Now I have a font with 3000 characters, all of which appear in the Word Insert Symbol Table, which is what my client wanted.

Problem solved.
:smiley: