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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

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AGuyLookingForASolutionAuthor
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April 8, 2023

The Noto Emoji font has the clock face 1F557, it is also installed on my machine.

The csv file contains the clock face for specific cells -- I can see the symbols in the file when I open it. Encoding in the file is set at UTF-16 LM BOM.

I have changed the font in the template for those cells

I confirm that I can see the cell (which is empty at the moment) has the Noto Emoji font

I then re-export to PDF using Data Merge and nothing appears

Would anyone know how to get this symbol to appear?

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AGuyLookingForASolutionAuthor
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April 9, 2023

...and that said, I just downloaded Symbola, inserted the 8:30 glyph into a new doc, and exported it to PDF without issue. It is, however, the simple black and white glyph, not the multicolor one.

 


Yes, I agree. The Symbola font did print out when doing my simple test but it is not printing when using the Data Merge option. Did you happen to try that one out as well? It would be interesting to hear if you did get the same result.

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