Œ?

[luha]

I wanted to write a word containing a French œ. As I do not have an œ on my keyboard, I went for Insert | Symbol – but I could not find the œ there. I had to resort to Google and search for «coeur» to find an œ to copy into my document. Later I found that the œs were characters 0140 and 0156 – and that all the characters between 0127 and 0160 were missing from the list of Insert | Symbol!

Is there a special reason for this? Or is this a bug that will be fixed in the next β?

[admin]

Not every font contains glyphs for all Unicode characters. You might need to choose another font in the "Insert | Symbol..." dialog of Atlantis. The "œ" glyph (decimal code 339) is available in Arial, Times New Roman, and Verdana. Many other fonts offer it too.

You might be interested in the following AtlanTip:

Inserting characters not available directly through the keyboard

[luha]

OK – Thanks. I understand (I think). But I still find i peculiar that I can type the œ with [Alt] + 0156, but there is no character 0156 in the Insert | Symbol list – all the time using Times New Roman.

[admin]

Non-"Basic Latin" characters can have different numeric codes depending on the character set. The same character can have different codes in ANSI and Unicode. "156" is a code of "œ" in ANSI (Western Europe). In Unicode this character has a different code: 339. The "Insert | Symbol..." dialog of Atlantis displays Unicode codes of characters. When you use Alt+NNN (with one leading zero) to insert a character, NNN is its ANSI code. In order to insert a character when you know its Unicode code, you should use two leading zeros (Alt+00339), as explained in the corresponding AtlanTip:

Inserting characters not available directly through the keyboard