Before I submit a bug report or feature request, is this Glyph Panel issue a problem?

[Jason Burnett]

I almost exclusively use the Glyph Panel to pick icons from icon fonts like Font Awesome.

The problem is that when you create a text field and the dummy text is added, the icon fonts do not display previews. You can select the fontname from the font menu, but nothing happens. I could understand selecting a font and since none of the dummy text is rendered by the font, your selected text would either be automatically deselected or replaced with those annoying blank square (missing font symbols.

You have to delete the dummy text or ensure that you don't have any text selected before you can view the glyph previews for an icon font. In my book this is a bonafide bug and one that should' be easily remedied. But I have a feeling someone in Adobe development has some hardline view of font rules that precludes displaying more than one icon font character in a selection or something odd.

If text is selected that does not have an equivalent in a font, give us the blank character or something, but show us the glyphs we requested. If we select a glyph and have text selected, replace the text with the glyph--don't just let us choose the icon font and give us a blank glyph table that is useless.

Does anyone else have this problem? Should I report it as a bug or request a feature that sounds like: Do what I ask the program to do and show me my glyphs when I open the glyph panel. Never show a big empty table devoid of glyphs with no font selected because I chose an icon font and had text selected."
 
Thanks in advance.
P.S. I tried to screen capture the issue and all I got was the big blank glyph panel with no font selected after selecting Font Awesome.

PPS, it works fine with Wingdings...Does not work with AdobeIcons, Adobe Spectrum Icons, Font Awesome, IcoMoon fonts, etc.

[John Mensinger]

The inconsistencies you've uncovered certainly do seem buggy, but I suspect there may be some reason for them deeper in the fonts themselves, as opposed to Illustrator code.

I've never encountered it, perhaps mainly because I hated the automatic placeholder text the day it was introduced, and turned it off as soon as I found the setting in Preferences > Type...

[Monika Gause]

I suppose that those fonts have their glyphs in some faraway area of the Unicode set.