Unable to install on MAC

[mdexter57]

I installed the icons on a mac and I just see a repeating image and not the icons themselves. I did try to update the license file but not sure if I did it correctly. Can you assist me please?

Mike

[cameronmcefee]

Hi @mdexter57,

What you describe (presumably the "repeating images" are the GitHub mark) sounds like it's working as expected.

How are you trying to use the icons? I'll have a better idea what you'll need to do to make them work for you. If you're installing them, I presume you're trying to use them in an application like Photoshop or Keynote?

[mdexter57]

I opened MS Word and just tried typing and everything came out as the same
icon.

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Cameron McEfee notifications@github.com
wrote:

Hi @mdexter57 https://github.com/mdexter57,

What you describe (presumably the "repeating images" are the GitHub mark)
sounds like it's working as expected.

How are you trying to use the icons? I'll have a better idea what you'll
need to do to make them work for you. If you're installing them, I presume
you're trying to use them in an application like Photoshop or Keynote?

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[cameronmcefee]

Thanks for the extra info! What you're experiencing is the correct behavior, technically. Octicons will use the GitHub logo in place of any characters that don't exist in the font. Octicons are mapped to unicode characters that are in the Private Use Area and does not contain traditional Latin characters, so typing on your keyboard won't show you any unique icons.

Since you can't type the unicode characters that have icons mapped to them, the Octicons site provides a way to copy them to your clipboard. Check out the profile pages for the icon you want to use, and look for the button with the icon on it. Clicking this button will copy the glyph to the clipboard.

For example, if you paste this into MS Word, you should get the alert icon: 

[mdexter57]

Ok well that is not a good solution. If you call something a font then it
should be a font. Thanks for the info I will remove it all from my
desktop. Wingdings and webdings are also images mapped to keys. This is
what I expected when I downloaded the "font".

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Cameron McEfee notifications@github.com
wrote:

Thanks for the extra info! What you're experiencing is the correct
behavior, technically. Octicons will use the GitHub logo in place of any
characters that don't exist in the font. Octicons are mapped to unicode
characters that are in the Private Use Area and does not contain
traditional Latin characters, so typing on your keyboard won't show you any
unique icons.

Since you can't type the unicode characters that have icons mapped to
them, the Octicons site http://octicons.github.com/ provides a way to
copy them to your clipboard. Check out the profile pages for the icon you
want to use, and look for the button with the icon on it. Clicking this
button will copy the glyph to the clipboard.

[image: octicons 2014-06-17 09-55-23 2014-06-17 09-55-30]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/72919/3303515/3152d904-f640-11e3-8e65-2addd113f424.jpg

For example, if you paste this into MS Word, you should get the alert
icon: 

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[makc]

@mdexter57 that's "by design", see here:

we didn't want any of the standard characters and used our own special unicode characters

as to "why", there might (or might not) be an answer here.