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<h2>Enabling Unicode Characters</h2>
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<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 Window’s system. If you are experiencing this problem it can be resolved quite easily:</p>
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<li>Right-click on your Desktop.</li>
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<li>Click Properties in the drop-down menu > Click the Appearance tab > Click the Advanced option. A new pop-up box will open.</li>
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<li>Click the “Item” drop-down menu and select Message Box.</li>
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<li>Click the “Font” drop-down menu and select Arial Unicode MS.
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<p>The Unicode characters should now appear in the Taxonomic Editor.</p>
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<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:</p>
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<li>Insert the Office CD, and do a Custom Install.</li>
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<li>Choose Add or Remove Features.</li>
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<li>Click the (+) next to Office Tools > International Support > the Universal Font icon > Arial Unicode MS font. </li>
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<li>Follow the instructions 1-2 above.</li>
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