Talk:Viewdata

message: Quote "Source: from Federal Standard 1037C".
Yet, as far as I can tell, the word viewdata is not on the page which is quoted as a source.
Songwriter 07:16 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)
:It isn't in the Wikipedia article but it is in the external link. Biscuittin (talk) 22:50, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

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message: Starting a topic to report a problem: That star-like symbol called the "sextile" isn't rendering for me on an Apple MacBook Air (M1, 2020) using both the latest Chrome and Firefox versions at the time of writing. Might need to use a kind of character encoding warning template like exists on linguistics pages. — AzureArmagedd0n (talk) 11:34, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The "script" option recently added to  might provide a workaround? See template talk:unichar#Combining diacritics are displaying as tofu on Android - fault may be in cwith= handling?. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 12:44, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure how one would use that to approximate a sextile. I'm very new to wiki editing so I'm quite unfamiliar with wiki templates and such. AzureArmagedd0n (talk) 05:03, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

text: More specifically, is there any font routinely available on MacBook that includes the sextile glyph? --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 13:21, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I've no clue about that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ AzureArmagedd0n (talk) 05:02, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Short of copying the symbol into a document and then trying every font you have available until you find one? Then, pretending that the answer is Helvetica (most unlikely), try this:  If that works with your selection, we can revise the article accordingly. A possible clue to finding the answer is astrology because the symbol  is used there too, so almost certain to feature on MacBooks. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 09:38, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I copied the symbol into the Font Book app and cycled through every system font but found no luck there. Would loading a web font be an appropriate solution? Perhaps maybe placing an svg in lieu of the character would work. AzureArmagedd0n (talk) 10:29, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: How strange. In that case, I'm afraid we just have to put up with it until the folks at Apple sort themselves out. An image of the symbol is already in the article, so I don't see that we really need another instance of it. (A web font would solve it for you but not for the other million MacBook users out there who wouldn't expect to have to install some special font first.)  TBH, Viewdata is a very niche interest and very few people indeed will encounter it. But I've left a message at talk:Astrology since it is far more likely to be encountered there (sadly). --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 11:50, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I am running a now older version of macOS (Monterey) so I can't speak for later versions which might have the symbol included but thanks for the quality follow-up regardless. AzureArmagedd0n (talk) 04:23, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sextile symbol not rendering