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Can't paste symbol from Character viewer in Mac to Photoshop

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Mar 15, 20268679 views
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This is extremely annoying: I want to paste in a special symbol in Photoshop using the Character Viewer in Mac. I understand that there are some fonts that do not support these symbols, but when I paste this symbol in Photoshop, it appears as an unknown symbol (similar to this: ⊠ ), and I can't eve…

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Fix for: Can't paste symbol from Character viewer in Mac to Photoshop

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I can confirm that Trey's answer is correct, although he didn't really offer much explanation as to why. Photoshop locks the font unless you select a font that supports the character - in this case, Lucida Grande supports pretty much every character…

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