Occasionally I use special characters in my writing, and up to now it’s been quite straightforward with hitting “Emoji & Symbols” in the Edit menu and the character map pops up. Since macOS Tahoe 26.0.1 and Scrivener 3.5, I’m now getting a completely different and hard to navigate dialogue. I’m trying to enter the Cyrillic small letter T, and for some reason it’s translated into an ‘m’.
I’ve just checked, Tahoe/3.5 .
Bringing the emoji etc up from the menu or keyboard and typing cy in the search box brings them all up to select and double clicking on it inserts correctly. Not getting an ‘m’ at all.
What happens when you change it to italic (cursive)? I tried that with Source Serif 4 and this letter turns into an “m”-looking character. So maybe that’s what’s going on there.
* I’m still on Sequoia, btw.
You are right. If the insertion point is in an italic SERIF font, it becomes an m. If the font is italic SANS, it remains the T, regardless of font (out of 4 I tried).
This also occurs in Apple Pages, so this issue is outside of Scrivener.
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I got mixed results (both sans and serif), with a general tendency toward the “m”. It gets even crazier if you dig into the (if available) OpenType character variants of the respective font.
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