@Xav: you are right. I noticed it later.

Thanks everyone for help.
I'm going to switch to XITS font as suggested by ~suv, as I have to use it too many times.
Cheers!

Actually for now i'm just using simple straight lines above letters to symbolize vectors. But it would be nice if I could use the arrow. I have to use it again and again so that's why i didn't go for the manual option.

I am using Inkscape 0.48.0 r9654 in Windows 7.
Below is how it is displayed. I want the arrow to be exactly above the letter.

Hello every one So I have to draw vector symbols and need to put an arrow symbol above some letters. What I know is that I have to use Unicode character codes with ctrl+u. I found this vector symbol with code '20D7'. But problem is that no font other than 'Cambria Math' recognizes this character cod...

Thanks a lot for help and suggestions.
It appears that it was indeed a bug, but this one:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/512150

I was working with landscape mode. Once I changed the page to 'Portrait' mode, it worked fine.

Hello everyone I was following the Inkscape manual to place tiles along an arc, but I am not getting the expected results. I want to arrange the clones in a circle, around the center of rotation of the base object. I fixed the center of rotation of the base object as I desired, but the clones t do n...