Enabling Unicode Characters

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:

1. Right-click on your Desktop.
2. Click Properties in the drop-down menu > Click the Appearance tab > Click the Advanced option. A new pop-up box will open.
3. Click the Item drop-down menu and select Message Box.
4. Click the Font drop-down menu and select Arial Unicode MS.

   The Unicode characters should now appear in the Taxonomic Editor.

   

   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:

5. Insert the Office CD, and do a Custom Install.
6. Choose Add or Remove Features.
7. Click the (+) next to Office Tools > International Support > the Universal Font icon > Arial Unicode MS font.
8. Follow the instructions 1-2 above.