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AGuyLookingForASolution
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April 8, 2023
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Data Merge not displaying special characters / symbols

  • April 8, 2023
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I am trying to figure out how to display a🕗 as one of the symbols in my data file. The csv file is re-encoded as U16-LM BOM and this displays the symbols within the CSV file. There are other symbols such as: ●, ◆, ○, ◇ that print out fine. But I am not able to figure out how to get the clock symbol above to appear when exporting to pdf.

 

Please help if you know a solution.

 

Thanks,
Jeff

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Correct answer James Gifford—NitroPress

The font used for that glyph must include that Unicode symbol. Not all do. Check in the Glyphs panel. If it's not there, or has a placeholder glyph instead, you'll have to use a different base font or create a character style to override each use of that symbol.

 

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AGuyLookingForASolutionAuthor
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April 8, 2023

The clock is: 

Unicode Name: Clock Face Eight O’Clock

Codepoints: U+1F557

James Gifford—NitroPress
James Gifford—NitroPressCorrect answer
Legend
April 8, 2023

The font used for that glyph must include that Unicode symbol. Not all do. Check in the Glyphs panel. If it's not there, or has a placeholder glyph instead, you'll have to use a different base font or create a character style to override each use of that symbol.

 

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AGuyLookingForASolutionAuthor
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April 8, 2023

Thanks for your response James. I have an InDesign template that was created by my companies design team. The template has a couple of text frames with tables in them. In certain cells I have mapped our data to these particular cells using the Data Merge. Given that context, am I able to change the font just on the one cell that I need to symbol to appear (note it's an empty cell in the template). Also, would you know which font I would need to use in order to get the clock symbol to appear?  Thank you again.

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