@Gary, it has always been like this, at least back to v12.
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@Matt mentions FA's Private (Use) Area. For instance 'Glass' is U+F000, Private Use Area; 'Space' is U+0020, Basic Latin. The range difference is vast so what you keyboard will never be a FA symbol.So we have included the font, and an easy way to view all the symbols, as a way to incorporate the symbols either as a font in text or as raw vector graphic.
@handrawn, can you advise how to view FA in Affinity? FA has different flavours and it may depend on what has been licenced.
FA is a version 6. I believe Xara is still version 5. v6 has 2037 free icons. Not all are in the FA font I have on my system (c.f., figma).
The FA embed operation is web-based so it would fail for PDFs, hence the use of the FA Font approach. It would be nice to access the non-TT Font symbols to use then as vector.
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