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How to use Wingdings font in Java Swing

When I try to use the Wingdings font (or other symbol fonts), the text comes out as rectangles instead of the correct text. How do I get the correct characters to show? import java.awt.*; import javax.swing.*; public class WingdingsFontDisplay…
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Copying wingdings (etc) from word documents to html text fields

When I write out some text (standard English, no fancy characters) in Word using Windgings as a font, copying the text and pasting into an html textfield results in the OS's "I don't know what character this is" characters (little squares on…
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Wingding chars in sql server 2005

In a winforms application i 'm storing one Wingdings char in a SQL Server 2005 field of type NVARCHAR(1). Storing, retrieving and showing up this char in a control works fine. The problem i'm facing is this: how to search for records which have a…
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Returning Wingdings characters within a text with an Excel formula

I want return appropriated Wingdings character at end of a string, with a formula as shown below: enter image description here Which formula can I write to return the shown Wingdings characters at the end of the regular string in a cell? (Instead of…
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What is the Microsoft Office smiley face character really?

Windows auto corrects a :) (smiley face emoticon) into the Wingdings symbol for capital J when using Outlook, Word, and other Microsoft Office programs. This can be seen when opening an email on a phone for example, a smiley included in the subject…
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SSRS : Wingdings check box not displayed in Chrome and Firefox

I am trying to display the checkbox on the SSRS report based on the value of a Boolean field wingdings font. My expression looks like this. =IIF(Fields!ColorCheck.Value,chr(254),chr(168)) This works fine in IE but not in Chrome or Firefox. I tried…
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Adding symbols to word document using docx4j

I am trying to add a Wingdings symbol using the following code to the docx. P symp = factory.createP(); R symr = factory.createR(); Sym sym = factory.createRSym(); sym.setFont("Wingdings"); sym.setChar("FOFC"); symr.getContent().add(sym); …
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WPF RichTextBox with WingDings font selected displays weird characters

So, this piqued my intreset. I'm making a program that uses a RichTextBox in WPF and lets users pick their font. When the font WingDings is selected, these boxes are shown on newlines: The first line is "this is a test" in WingDigs, then when I…
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IE 10 scrollbar and form buttons look like wingding font characters

I first saw this when I tried the IE 10 beta a while back and thought that it would be resolved in the full release. Not so. I've tried uninstalling all the way back to version IE8. The wingding buttons problem only show up when I have IE 10…
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Why does Wingdings not function on iOS 5? Why can't I use Wingdings in my iPhone app?

I built a test app. All it does is populate a label on the screen with text and then try and change the font. 90% of the time this works just fine, even when I am using custom fonts that I have imported. However, I have not been able to get…
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icons from wingding 3 fonts wont display on andoid 13

I'm trying to draw arrows on button with wingding 3 font, fonts added in resources, registered in mauiprogram.cs, but on android 13 platform icons don't appearing, but on Android 8 all working correctly, how to correct this? here is my…
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How to show a tick in prompt of an item in oracle forms 12c？

I am working on oracle form 12c, an item is created, the prompt of the item is a tick. Here is the property of the item： Prompt： P Prompt font name： Wingdings 2 It displayed a tick correctly in design time, but ”P” in runtime. How to show a tick in…
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Wingdings Font, Some Chars not shown correctly. Visible as Box

I am using the Wingdings Font for an winforms Application. Since Windows 10 we have the Problem that some chars not shown correctly. In my Charmap they are shown correctly but when copy them out into "Editor" it's not working with all chars! Word…
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MVC3 Website throws wingdings error message on localhost

When I run my MVC3 project on VS2015 it throws an error page with wingding like characters. The website is running on .Net 4 framework Custom errors is set to off Project was pulled from TFS and I've confirmed that all the reference and DLL's are…
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Is it possible to use Wingdings in an MSI with Wix?

I am trying to use Wingdings in my Wix installer, specifically the characters at 0xFB and 0xFC. I tried unicode variants of these (✗, ✓), but since Wix/MSI requires a specific codepage, these do not work. My TextStyle is:
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