special characters and related font problems.

Using Amaya 9.2.2. on Windows XP.

It is great to have the spacial characters facility to type, eg, mathematical
symbols. However, the usability of the panel is greatly reduced by the fact
that, for most of the characters, the symbol itself is not visible at all, only
the symbolic name (which is way too cryptic most of the time).

I guess a preference should set the font to be used there. I do have fonts on my
machine (eg, Arial Unicode MS) that could display all those characters, so...

I also realized a similar problem when editing a file itself. I am not sure
which font the editor uses as a default, but most of the mathematical symbols
(added to the file in Unicode UTF-8) are not displayed (although they appear
perfectly on my, say, firefox screen using the same file).

A final issue related to fonts: if I want to set the font-family to a specific
font from the left panel, I cannot. The only choice Amaya gives me is the
generic fonts. Ie, I have to go to the source view...

Ivan

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