{Posted on behalf of Be Communities User}
When placing centerline special character text in a file the character appears in the word processor and on screen correctly in version 08.11.09.459. However, when the text is edited it does not appear the word processor correctly.
This functionality is a by-design when using MS_WORD_PROCESSOR_DISPLAY_RSC_USING_DEFAULT_FONT variable. Being that the centerline is a custom symbol in most RSC font, by setting the variable you are preventing MicroStation from generating an equivalent TrueType font; therefore, your symbols and character mapping will be of the fall-back font, which will not contain any customizations such as this.
The color aspect may indeed be a caveat in the word processor and therefore the need of the variable. But if you you refer to the following link:
communities.bentley.com/.../converting-microstation-rsc-fonts-to-ttf-fonts.aspx
This variable was initially created because some special characters would appear when spaces were entered during the on-the-fly creation of true type fonts to represent MicroStation RSC fonts. This variable disabled that ability.
What I see after the variable is set that the character does not appear in the word processor when editing text. Is this what you were seeing?
Turns out the configuration variable MS_WORD_PROCESSOR_DISPLAY_RSC_USING_DEFAULT_FONT = 1 was causing the issue in version 8.11.09.459. Once I removed this variable definition the symbol displayed properly again in the word processor dialog box. However this variable was originally defined because many of the rsc fonts don’t display well in the word processor dialog especially when using a dark color such as blue or purple.
Check and see what version of Internet Explorer that you have running. If you are running IE 10 is it possible to see if the same problem occurs on a machine with IE 9 or lower?