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How to see specific Unicode Characters in Google Chrome for Mac?

I love Chrome to death, it's the best browser I've ever used but there is one detrimental problem that I'm sure has an easy solution that I just can't find. I post on here quite a bit, primarily in the math section, and I rely on unicode characters for simplicity and semantically correct answers. Out of the many characters I use on a daily basis I've notices that ℝ (a double struck R), ℤ (a double struck Z), ℕ (a double struck N), and ℒ (a script L) among other letters in the "Letterlike Symbols" category of unicode don't show up in text boxes when I'm using Chrome. All I see is a ™ in a box. I can highlight the box and right click for a drop down menu in which there is an option to search google for that character, where it shows up correctly. So I know the problem isn't my compute it's just that Chrome for some reason doesn't have this block of unicode.

I'm using the same fonts I did with Safari, where everything worked perfectly. I input the characters using the Character Palette. I'm using Chrome 5.0.342.7 beta for Mac and am running Snow Leopard on an Intel MacBook Pro.

Thank you for your assistance.

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  • Jallan
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    See http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/search.py... for all sorts of problems with Google Chrome displaying characters.

    I find that Google Chrome 4 under WIndows also doesn’t include non-base plane characters and many of the newer Unicode characters. So this does not appear to be a problem with a specific version of Chrome or with a Macintosh configuration.

    Pure speed does have its drawbacks. On Windows, I continue to stick with Firefox.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    I even have Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, and internet Explorer all put in. My husband is going to college for desktops and presented me to Opera. this is lots quicker than any of the others. for college, I could use internet Explorer to get right of entry to their portal. it is so annoying and it takes lots time to load something.

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