Unicode font incompatibility in Indesign

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I'm using Adobe Creative Suite Mac version and want to know as why Unicode font does not work on Indesign. When I copy and paste UC text from MS Word to Indesign it converts into box symbols. Could I find a perfect solution for this problem please?

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unicode font issue

Jongware

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InDesign treats fonts with a bit more respect than Microsoft Word. If you enter a character in Word that is not available in the current font, it selects another font on its own. It does not tell you what it used, though, and you cannot know if it did, and if you knew, you cannot change that font to something else.

InDesign only shows the characters that are actually available in the font. My bet is that you need to select another font to see what you entered.

This has nothing to do with Unicode – that works the same, in Word and in InDesign.

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badasschickphoto

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I also would like this colution. I can post this unicode character here:

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But if I do it in InDesign it wont copy, just displays a missing font box. I can even post it in the search box in the glyphs panel and it shows no results. Pretty frustrating as it works in notepad, html WYSIWG editors, etc. But not InDesign.

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