What can be done if Word inserts a filler glyph from Cambria (or some standard font) and won let me change the font to New Athena Unicode to see the correct Unicode character?
Some specialized characters in later versions of Unicode (such as special punctuation at U+2310 and following) are sometimes badly handled in Word 2008 (whereas competently programmed applications have no trouble with them). The problem may affect papyrologists and palaeographers and those using certain transliteration schemes (such as Demotic Egyptian or Arabic). The problem appears inconsistently, since it apparently does not affect a .doc that was first saved in Word 2004 and then edited with Word 2008, but rather a .doc that is first created in Word 2008. Here are the steps to try to work around this problem. (1) In some cases, simply by selecting the unwanted font and reapplying New Athena Unicode to the selection, you can get the character you want. (2) If that does not work, a workaround is to copy the character from a keyboard chart document (or another document in which the character appears) and to paste it in, specifying to keep source formatting. (3) If that fails, then the
