1 <h2>Enabling Unicode Characters
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3 <p>The Taxonomic Editor uses the operating system's default font to display all the fields that store specimen data. On a Macintosh, the system font is Unicode-compliant, so there is no problem displaying specimen data that includes symbols such as
♀ and
♂. On some, mainly older Windows systems, this is unfortunately not the case. To ensure that all data will be visible on your system, you may need to install a Unicode-compliant font on your Windows system. If you are experiencing this problem it can be resolved quite easily:
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6 <li>Right-click on your Desktop.
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7 <li>Click Properties in the drop-down menu
> Click the Appearance tab
> Click the Advanced option. A new pop-up box will open.
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8 <li>Click the Item drop-down menu and select Message Box.
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9 <li>Click the Font drop-down menu and select Arial Unicode MS.
10 <p>The Unicode characters should now appear in the Taxonomic Editor.
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12 <p>If the Arial Unicode MS font is not shown as an option in the Font drop-down menu, and you are using Microsoft Office
2000 or later, you can obtain the font from your Microsoft Office CD:
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14 <li>Insert the Office CD, and do a Custom Install.
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15 <li>Choose Add or Remove Features.
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16 <li>Click the (+) next to Office Tools
> International Support
> the Universal Font icon
> Arial Unicode MS font.
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17 <li>Follow the instructions
1-
2 above.
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