Answers: windows 7 - Why some unicode characters are missing in charmap?

MainMa

In Windows, Character Map doesn't seem to display all of the unicode characters, even if the selected font supports them, and "Character set" selector is "Unicode".

For example, the small envelope U+2709 ✉ is never displayed, even if the character exists both in Segoe UI and in Consolas (at least Visual Studio (Consolas) and a sample web page (Segoe UI) displayed in Google Chrome show both the character correctly).

When typing 2709 in "Go to Unicode", this redirects to U+2776 ❶.

Why some unicode characters are missing from charmap?

RedGrittyBrick

Are you sure the characters are in the font?

Browsers search other fonts to find missing characters - therefor you cant use browsers to test font contents.

You can't trust applications either - here I am using an Arabic font in Notepad to show Chinese characters that I strongly suspect are not in the Arabic font. It seems to me the application (or the underlying Windows libraries) are searching other fonts to provide the missing character.

screenshot of Notepad showing mixed languages

If you need an independent corroboration, you could try FontForge or another third-party font tool.

barlop

It's there in the Ariel Unicode MS Font. check that wikipedia page No need to download a font for it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_font to see what fonts support what characters.

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Is there a Pac-Man-like character in ASCII or Unicode?

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Ricket

Simple question: is there a character that looks either like Pac-Man, or like the ghost in Pac-Man?

With Google's recent Pac-Man logo, everyone should know what these look like, but in case you don't here are some sample images:

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If you answer "no" please provide a little more proof that you actually searched all unicode characters...

Example of what I'm looking for: If I were to ask, "is there a character that looks like a sun", I would expect an answer along the lines of "Yes, ☼ and according to charmap it is U+263C". That's what I'm looking for, but with Pac-Man or the ghost...

Usage: I would like to paste this symbol into a web form textbox in order for it to show on a webpage. This is a one-line textbox, so a complex ASCII art "image" isn't acceptable in this case.

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thomas

ᗤ <- pacman, also a ghost ᗣ got here by google, someone else will be looking for it, don't remember the unicode for it but i copied the characters from a old file.

Mark Rushakoff

It's not looking good -- presumably, anything resembling Pac-Man would be in the "Geometric Shapes" block, but the closest you'll get is a circle that's 1/4 filled:

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JSBձոգչ

No. Unicode does not provide amusing characters just for the hell of it--all of the wacky characters in Unicode (like the snowman and the sun) are there because some legacy encoding included them.

No legacy character set ever had a Pac-Man character. Hence, Pac-Man is not in Unicode.

If you're trying to find out if there's some oddball character that kinda-sorta resembles Pac-Man, you'll have to look through all of the codepages yourself.