Stupid Gnome Character Map

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Stupid Gnome Character Map

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The character map in Gnome doesn't display numbers or special symbols like emdash etc. Does anyone have any idea why they decided to make it not fully functional? It's very frustrating and a point up for MS who have always made the full character set available through charmap for every font. I'm not saying I prefer Windows, but it looks like in terms of usability and accessibility they did a better job than the developers of Gnome's Character Map, allowing anyone to access any character in the set, which Gnome's team failed to do (or that's how it looks right now, anyway).
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Re: Stupid Gnome Character Map

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You may have the default view set By Script. Change it to View > By Unicode Block. Then click All (first choice in the list on the left-hand side).
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Re: Stupid Gnome Character Map

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Ah, well thanks very much for that simple solution. But you see what I mean --- we shouldn't have to work that hard! It should be the default and then if we want to do something fancy that is when it should go to that more restrictive mode. Otherwise who is going to know? And Mint doesn't include the help file for the character map.

But that worked perfectly (your solution) and I really appreciate you taking the time to explain it. Thanks!
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