Font preview icons in Windows

Viktor Nübel
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If you chooose ‘Large Symbols’ in ‘View’ in the Windows Explorer, .otf and .ttf files get a preview thumbnail that shows the letters Abg of the typeface. You will have the same if you go to the Windows fonts directory. Some files only show ∑√≠. It seems like something is broken there. I’m guessing, it is something about the encoding, but i could not see what it is exactly.

Does someone know how this works and what it needs to fix this?

Does someone know how this works and what it needs to fix this?
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I don't know how you change it in Windows but if you're making a font and you don't want to see the this, in Fontlab under Supported Unicode ranges, uncheck Mathematical Operators.3
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Great, thanks Ray, that‘s it!
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