On Jan 5, 2015, at 3:53 PM, william humphrey <b...@bluewatermaritime.com> wrote:

> I noticed that √ which is a checkmark on Mac-OS is | a pipe symbol on Windows.
> 
> Is there a font I can choose on my design that will work the same on
> Windows and Mac?
> 
> I hope I don't have to put a bunch of "check which platform and do
> this or that".  I assumed the font characters were the same and I'm
> kind of surprised.

The Unicode character for checkmark is U+2713 (decimal 10,003), so if you’re 
using LC 7 just be sure to use that code point in your field. However, even in 
pre-v.7 you can set the character as an html unicode entity:

  set the htmltext of fld 1 to "&#10003;”

HTH

Devin

Devin Asay
Office of Digital Humanities
Brigham Young University

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