Sorry, I forgot to report back that after looking over the entire unicode 
table, I can’t find anything suitable as replacement glyphs. (at least not 
without a specialized typeface, which GnuCash would have to package)

So on Mac at least, we lose the ability to see there is an attachment or 
location association.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jun 24, 2020 w26d176, at 12:03 PM, Adrien Monteleone 
> <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 
> I tried pasting them into a Notes field, they take up space, but do not 
> display.
> 
> I fired up the GTKInspector to see if I could find a clue —no dice. CSS has 
> no effect, and it is near impossible to target anything besides the register 
> sheet as a whole, or the entry field. (and one can’t edit the attachment cell 
> to focus it) I even tried changing the font to Apple Color Emoji and it still 
> didn’t display.
> 
> So this might be a GTK-Mac emoji issue. (I can’t paste any emojis in, same 
> result) Or if others on Mac can use and see emoji, then something is wrong 
> with my setup.
> 
> But this failure to display also means the fall-back can’t be seen. GnuCash 
> thinks it doesn’t need to fall-back, and puts the glyph there, but it shows 
> up as simply a space and is invisible.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> 
>> On Jun 24, 2020 w26d176, at 10:57 AM, Robert Fewell <14ubo...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> I tested this on a couple of Linux boxes and also on Windows and had no 
>> trouble so maybe it is a Mac issue. Unfortunately I do not presently have 
>> one so I do not know, maybe John might have an idea, the only ideas I have 
>> is to set different code points for a paperclip and links for Mac's, disable 
>> it for Macs or maybe change the test.
>> 
>> Adrien do you have likely candidates for those?
>> 
>> On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 16:28, Adrien Monteleone 
>> <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
>> Those glyphs only show up for me in Character Viewer as ‘Apple Color Emoji’. 
>> (thus not part of any regular typeface) Not sure how to get that included in 
>> GnuCash if it isn’t there by default. Certainly, I don’t want to change my 
>> default font to all emojis.
>> 
>> But that doesn’t explain the lack of fall back ‘f’ and ‘w’.
>> 
>> I had a custom CSS file for colors and font sizes, so I pulled that and 
>> still the fall backs are not there.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
>> 
>>> On Jun 24, 2020 w26d176, at 7:38 AM, Robert Fewell <14ubo...@gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Adrien,
>>> That is a bot surprising, there is a test for the glyphs in the font and if 
>>> not present should default to 'f' and 'w', code points are..
>>> #define GLYPH_PAPERCLIP "\360\237\223\216" // Codepoint U+1F4CE
>>> #define GLYPH_LINK      "\360\237\224\227" // Codepoint U+1F517
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Bob
> 


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