Special Characters Mystery

Hi All,

my Special Characters palette is empty apart from about twelve characters of no use to me. If I select Roman or Japanese etc, still the same characters are displayed! I am particularly mourning the loss of my hash key at the moment as I am over half-way through writing a set of short stories. I noticed that everytime I re-opened the palette the characters were being ‘squeezed’ out of view within the window until they all but disappeared. Can anybody help with this?

Thanks in advance,

Hi,

Could you post a screenshot of the Special Characters palette? (You can use Grab.app in ~/Applications/Utilities to take a screenshot and then upload the image to the forum.) That might give us a better idea of what is happening.

All the best,
Keith

Hi there,
I have attached my special characters screen. I have noticed when I’m in Safari (I have a Mac) and I select ‘Special Characters’, I get the same screen come up. No other characters that were there originally can be displayed; those you see are my only options.
Regards, EC
Screen grab 1.jpg

Hi,

To me, that looks as though the window has just get a bit messed up during a resize (OS X windows can get like that sometimes). Have you tried resizing the window to make it much taller to see if that helps?

Best,
Keith

Hi Keith,
I have just re-sized the window and now all the characters are in view. It seems so obvious now! Thanks a lot for your help :slight_smile:
EC