In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I. Oppenheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote: > >> (a) I presume the list is not exhaustive. ie É (Capital E acute) and the > >The table only gives a number of examples for each >class of supported accents. > >> (b) I think we need a copyright symbol. \C or \OC. > >The second revision of the 2.0 draft (soon to be >released) will solve this issue. Briefly, there will be >defined a field called "%%abc-copyright", in which any >occurrence of the string "(C)" is to be replaced by the >copyright symbol: > >%%abc-copyright (C) Copyright John Smith 2003 > >> Maybe also R-in-a- circle although I don't know what >> it means. > >It means that you registered a trademark with the >government trademarks bureau. > >> (c) Why is £ \243? While I can of course implement it, it makes no >> sense. Ascii £ is 156. > >Watch out: 156 is decimal, while the number behind the >backslash should be the "octal code of the character", >which is 234 (and _not_ 243, which was a typo!)
Octal! I've not used that for 30 years, I would never have considered it in a PC environment. ... but maybe 243 was not a typo: it's the Latin-1 coding (decimal 163) for £. Bernard Hill Braeburn Software Author of Music Publisher system Music Software written by musicians for musicians http://www.braeburn.co.uk Selkirk, Scotland To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
