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Two different but related problems:

(1) Task: In the middle of text in the Arial font, I need to insert a circled number 1. This character exists in the Wingdings font (decimal 129).

Attempt: I do Insert>Symbol and choose the Wingdings font. However, the character grid shows the characters from Arial, not from Wingdings. If I hover the cursor over character 129, I can see the circled 1 in the box on the right, and if I click on it, the correct character is inserted. However, this isn't very useful if I don't already know that the circled 1 is character 129. So far as I can tell, this bug occurs whenever the font in question is a "symbol" font (i.e. a font identified in the font header as a symbol font, in which the character encoding starts at hex F020) unless it is the Windows Symbol font.

Pain-in-the-neck workaround: In order for the grid to show the Wingding symbols, I first have to select the Wingding font (either from the font list on the toolbar or from Format>Font) and then do Insert>Symbol. This shouldn't be necessary.

(2) Task: In the middle of my text, I need the c-caron character (č). This character is not part of the (default) Western codepage, but is included in the Central European codepage.

Attempt: I do Format>Font, and in the "Script" box I select Central European. Now I do Insert>Symbol. The č correctly appears in the grid (although when I hover the cursor over it, the box on the right displays the Western codepage character è instead). But when I click on the č, it is è that appears in my note instead.

Pain-in-the-neck workaround: After I have inserted the character (è in the example), I have to select it, do Format>Font again, and again change the script to Central European. Finally, I have a č.

These are a real pain, because I often need weird characters like these.