So I love onenote's method for entering unicode characters. It's intuitive and efficient, and until today I thought it would be able to handle any unicode character I had the font for. But now I've found a problem I can't seem to figure out a workaround for: exotic characters not covered by the Tahoma or Cambria Math fonts. As many of you probably know, if you use the XXXX+AltX method of entering unicode, onenote sometimes switches the font of the character, probably because whatever font you're using doesn't have it. Although this can be annoying sometimes, especially when the font doesn't switch back as I continue typing, I can see why they put it in, and it doesn't seriously impede my note taking.

However, I recently found myself needing to insert a left and right double turnstile character (looks like =||=) while taking notes for logic class. Oh joy, I thought, another unicode to add to my repertoire. But when I found the code (27DA) and tried to put it in, I got one of those frustrating little boxes with a question mark in it (in the cambria math font). I was a little annoyed that onenote was missing this character seeing as it has many other logic symbols, but I decided to solve the problem once and for all by installing the code 2000 pan-unicode font, which is pretty ugly but should have gotten the job done. Only after installing it did I realize I could not figure out a way to switch my useless little box-with-a-?-mark from Cambria math to code 2000; the font selector just jumps backs to the old font when I try to change it, meaning there's no way for me to enter unicode the normal way for weird characters.

Does anyone know an alternative way to do this? Not being able to use the whole range of unicode symbols wouldn't be the wisest design choice even for a word processor, but for note taking software it's simply criminal.