Windows 10: Special characters no longer appearing in windows 10

I have many apps and documents on my PC that use special characters, such as Greek letters, Cyrilic letters and Symbols in addition to the (American) English that is predominate. Previous to the most recent update, all special characters appeared without any difficulty where I wished them to appear. Since the update, all special characters have been replaced with either a ? or a ▯, depending on which application is used. This extends to the Character Map app, which will show only some of the characters (only those represented on a U.S. keyboard) instead of all of the characters for each and every font.


I have attempted to change the default Windows 10 font from Segoe UI to Segoe UI Symbol to solve the problem, but it seems that Segoe UI Symbol has no letters so all the text is replaced with ????????. Segoe UI has only the most common American letters and symbols and nothing else.


This error is appearing in Word documents, Notepad documents, MP3 titles and tags, icon names, websites, and others.


How do I continue to include all the unicode symbols, especially the special characters, on my desktop and in all the apps?

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Special character in password

Dear Dex Ong,



I understand that you have a question about special characters in password.



This behavior is by design. To be honest I am not aware of the reasons that Microsoft has chosen to block special characters from passwords.



I will make a research on this issue and I will let you know as soon as I have an answer.



Kind regards,





*Update: Dex Ong, I would suggest to ask this question on a Live account forum because settings for passwords is not under Windows Phone settings.



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ALT Key Codes for Special Characters List


Thanks for this PDF file list of special characters! It will come in very handy, *Thumbs

 

Special characters

I say little wrongly it as fault, its more feature. Normal characters are 7-bit and special characters are 8/16-bit long. So more you use special characters, shorter the message can be.

Message Edited by pankola on 02-Mar-2009 12:57 PM