


However this explanation neglects how Windows actually uses fonts and why a font fallback is necessary. But some apps may take direct dependencies on particular fonts for displaying certain Unicode characters and do not utilize the font fallback mechanisms provided by Windows 10 systems" OneNote simply doesn't support unicode as has been reported here and the same issue, but more generally can be found also in this article.Īs the following excerpt about the Windows 10 Edition(but should mostly apply to other versions as well) explains, a font fallback system is used for most applications to help them display characters not in a font.Īll Windows 10 editions include fonts that provide broad language support, and the Windows platform includes font fallback mechanisms designed to ensure that text in any language always displays with legible glyphs rather than boxes. The reason why this doesn't work has nothing to do with the fonts as you've found.
