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Some language characters or symbols are not showing up correctly in my book, what can I do?
Some language characters or symbols are not showing up correctly in my book, what can I do?

Keywords: character, symbol, font language, square with an X in it, PDF, not working

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Written by Leanpub Support
Updated over a week ago

Some typed characters or symbols may not show up properly in your ebook, particularly in the PDF version.

This may be because the font you are using does not support those characters or symbols.

If this happens, you can try switching the font being used in your Book Theme.

Here is an article showing you where to go to change your Book Theme, and what all the settings for each Theme are:

OK, that's it!


Why did we write this article?

We wrote this article because an author was asking on our Authors Forum about using the Rupee symbol ₹ in their book. Here is a link to the thread:

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