[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 128850] SPECIAL CHARACTER: Add Exclusive-or symbol

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128850

--- Comment #3 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
(In reply to contestcen from comment #2)
> OUCH!!  That's quite a burden you are placing on the users.  Not only do we
> need to know what the different fonts look like, we also need to know which
> characters are available in which fonts.

Not really, the Special Character chart gives functional font preview scrolling
the droplist of fonts, and provides search (by Unicode name, and Unicode
functional block).

Project also makes it easy to enter a glyph directly from keyboard using its
Unicode point. You would for example enter "U+2295" and then toggle it to its ⊕
glyph by entering <Alt>+X

Or likewise to reverse that conversion and show the Unicode value, for example
"U+2297" CIRCLED TIMES for glyph ⊗ 

> 
> Isn't there some better way of doing this?  Like have a list of all
> characters and let the computer pick the font when you want an outside
> character?  Or, give the user a choice of fonts when you have to go outside
> the current set?

Not really. Unicode is enormous but there are a few things that could be done
to improve the charts, e.g. restoring the empty chart values to visually show
missing glyphs in a font, and labeling the rows and columns of the font chart
for easy identification of the glyph's codepoint. 

Otherwise there are some very good utility programs for working with Unicode
chart representations of fonts.  BabelMap on Windows or gucharmap on gtk2/3
Linux DE.

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