# Unicode font issues

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/unicode-font-issues/37840>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80, vision\
**Created:** [August 18, 2020, 7:34am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/unicode-font-issues/37840 "2020-08-18T07:34:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 8:48am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/unicode-font-issues/37840/2 "2020-08-18T08:48:21Z")

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Ok, found some further info.

It looks like Google Noto separates the fonts by language. The fonts are primarily needed for web development: by splitting it per language they limit the download size, and CSS can accept multiple fallback fonts anyway. So you can get the full range of characters (see [Guidelines for Using Noto – Google Noto Fonts](https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/guidelines/)).

The really strange part is how Noto is now split in different languages, but neither `Noto Symbols` nor `Noto Symbols 2` supports a majority of arrows (though they do have different support).

 ![afbeelding](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/e/6/e638832a079bb0bad344c6e36c6f46032ddf5978.png) ![afbeelding](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/d/4/d417319b91ec97fcdb0c51f65a34ff5a7d36615e.png)

In 7.9 however, Lucida was apparently shipped and used as fallback font, but this isn’t shipped anymore in new JRE’s. (see [Font issues with Symbols - #3 by fred.berryman](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/font-issues-with-symbols/24150/3)). Strangely enough, I still see `Lucida Sans Unicode` in my list, which has a pretty good support for symbols, but not as good as in 7.9.

But now I’m wondering if Java has a feature similar to CSS where you can define multiple fallbacks. And how to even configure fonts for the designer.

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