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Figure 8-34. Double-click a character to transfer it to the “Characters to copy” box, as shown here.
(Double-click several in a row if you want to capture a sequence of symbols.) You may have to scroll
down quite a bit in some of today’s modern Unicode fonts, which contain hundreds of characters.
Click Copy, and then close the window. When you’ve returned to your document, use the Paste
command to insert the symbols.
The treasure map that reveals their locations is the Character Map
(Figure 8-34). When opening this program, use the Font drop-down menu
to specify the font you want to use (because every font contains its own set
of symbols). Now you see every single symbol available in the font. As you
click on each symbol, a magnified version of it appears to help you
distinguish among them.
Tip
Some email programs can’t handle the fancy symbols revealed by the Character Map. That
explains why the copyright symbol, for example, can turn into a gibberish character on the
receiving end.
