On 12.12.2009, at 17:50, Greg Ercolano wrote:

> Greg Ercolano wrote:
> 
>> [re: upside down saucepan]
>>      ..so maybe that \xe2\x8e\x87 (which I think is a unicode string) might
>>      be the wrong character..?
> 
>       I'm thinking maybe that should instead be:
> 
> \xe2\x8c\xa5
> 
>       I checked this in just now; r6961. Fix seemed to work form me.
> 
> 
> PS. I derived this by going over to wikipedia and searched for "Apple 
> Keyboard",
>    and there it showed the saucepan character, so I copy/pasted it into a file
>    and used od(1) to show the file in hex codes.

Or you could have found it in fl_symbol.cxx:

203:  if (shortcut & FL_ALT)   {strcpy(p,"\xe2\x8c\xa5"); p += 3;}  // ⌥  
alternative key symbol

>       "This symbol, originating on the Apple Lisa, represented the pull-out
>        plastic card situated under the Lisa keyboard."
> 
>    Wow, that's a stretch.
> 
>    Anyway, for whatever reason there's apparently an upside-down version of
>    this symbol as well, which we seemed to be using. r6961 should fix that I 
> think.

Maybe there was another card located *on top of* the Lisa keyboard?  :-P
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