Unicode in Photoshop CS3 Text Layer – doable ?

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Henrik Meier
Aug 17, 2008
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Hi. How can i use unicode characters within a Photoshop CS3 text layer? An example: In Word, i can type
261A
followed by
[Alt-key] C
then i see an unicode character in Word (the „left-pointing hand“).

This does not work in Photoshop. I also cannot copy-paste the unicode character from Word to Photoshop.

What i can do of course:
– do a screenshot of the character
– „print“ the character to PDF and import it hi-res to Photoshop

But is it not possible to type in unicode directly. On the net, i didn’t find a compact solution.

Is there a way to insert unicode smoothly to a PS text layer?

Btw, I’d like unicode not so much for foreign languages, more for symbols (I know there are symbol font sets like Dingbats that don’t require unicode). To look up unicode, i use decodeunicode.org and unicode.org. What else do you recommend to find interesting unicode symbols, web sites or freeware (for Windows)?

Thanks!

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