echristley(at)nc.rr.com
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 Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:06 am Post subject: Using character map |
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AeroElectric-List Digest Server wrote:
| Quote: | Using Character Map
You can use Character Map to copy and paste special characters into
your documents, such as the trademark symbol, special mathematical
characters, or a character from the character set of another language.
Open Character Map.
Notes
a.. To open Character Map, click Start, point to All Programs,
point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then click Character
Map.
b.. For information about using Character Map, click Help in
Character Map.
Copied the above from Start, Help, character map in search field.
David Carter
That only works on a Windows machine, and only for the font which the
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author is using at the moment. What Character Map actually does is load
an ASCII code. The font files have little pictures (called glyphs) that
correspond to each code. A different character set may have different
glyphs or none at all. Scroll through the fonts with Character Map, and
see how many are missing various characters (usually replaced with a
dash, if I remember correctly.)
Putting exotic ASCII codes in a public message that can only be
interpreted by a subset of the audience could be considered
anti-social. Many people use text mail readers, different fonts, or
even foreign character mappings. For instance, I use Thunderbird on
Linux, and what I got from your example was "Degrees (X=B0) is 0176 and
(X=B3) is 0179." Not exactly useful. Wouldn't it actually be less
difficult to just type degF or degC? (I can only assume that's what you
meant to represent.) There's less to remember, and you actually get
your message across to everyone.
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