how to display UNICODE chars in frames?
Hi all,
I've an horizontal frame at the end of a system where I write a info like "At the 2nd time go to the Christe bit" and the "coda" icon, actually character, follows.
I write it in Word and copy & paste into the frame.
The "coda" char is part of the "Segoe UI symbol" font where the musical symbols start at 1D100.
Attached are two images: one of the Word doc where I write what I need, the second is the result in Musescore, some kind of unknown character instead of the "coda" one shown in Word.
Any help?
Thanks,
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To enter special characters in text within MuseScore, press F2 while editing the text to display the Special Characters palette. You'll see the common musical symbols right there on the main page of the dialog, but also you have the ability to access the full set of SMuFL and Unicode symbols. Of course, they need to be supported by the particular font you are using, but for the SMuFL musical symbols at least, MuseScore will automatically use an appropriate font.
Insert special character pressing (F2)
In reply to Insert special character… by Shoichi
Thanks guys.
My wife is right, from time to time I should use my eyes as well !
I've used the special chars window so many times before ...
Aside from the special character option mentioned above, which will always work. It doesn't look like you MuseScore screenshot is using the "Segoe UI Symbol" font there, and apparently in the font you chose, that codepoint simply has a different graphic attached to it.
In reply to Aside from the special… by jeetee
I've copied it from Word, where it was the "Segoe UI Symbol" char set since it showed correctly, and pasted it in Musescore's horizontal frame where it displayed as shown in the picture.
In reply to I've copied it from Word,… by Trottolina
And have you set the pasted text in MuseScore to also be in the Segoe UI Symbol font?
In reply to And have you set the pasted… by jeetee
Indeed, as the freshly attached picture is showing. Indeed I didn't even have to tell MuS what the character set was.
As I assumed, correctly I can now say, the "features" are copied over with the item.
In reply to Indeed, as the freshly… by Trottolina
I can reproduce (took a bit of time to find the coda in segoe ui symbol)
I've pasted from Word into MuseScore, then pasted both into NotePad++ (which uses UTF-8 encoding) and asked it to translate the first character into it's HEX value. As you can see, upon pasting MuseScore seems to lose part of the information, likely due to character encoding differences.
Feel free to file a feature request into the issue tracker for better unicode support in MuseScore text fields (it could be we're limited by Qt somehow, but I doubt it)