Sorry, my previous posting was slightly incorrect. "&" occupies *ASCII* code point 038; its Unicode point is U+0026 (Unicode uses hex rather than decimal). The important fact is that when you use the "\x" code, FrameMaker is expecting two hex digits, not the four digits of a Unicode point.
And I neglected to indicate that the FrameMaker backslash code for Unicode is "\u", which is logically consistent with other backslash codes. -FR From: [email protected] To: orlyz at marvell.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Custom Table Footnote options Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 07:45:07 -0400 CC: frame at daube.ch What's happening is fairly obvious. "\x" does not designate a Unicode point--rather, it is the hexadecimal radix indicator. You use it when you need FrameMaker to interpret the following characters as hexadecimal digits. In this case FrameMaker is interpreting \x2660 as 0x26 followed by the alphanumeric characters 60. And since 0x26 is equal to 38 decimal, \x26 is displayed as & (which occupies Unicode point U+0038). -FR > From: orlyz at marvell.com > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 14:29:46 +0300 > Subject: RE: Custom Table Footnote options > CC: jeremy at omsys.com; frame at daube.ch > > Hi All, > Ok, so we've established that the Unicode for, say, a black spade, is 2660, > according to all sources so far. > In the Table Footnote Custom dialog box, when I enter > 2660 > , it thinks they are just numbers. The first footnote gets a 2, the second a > 6, etc. > > When I enter: > \x2660 > in the dialog box, FM returns > &60 > And the same thing happens, the first footnote gets a &, the next a 6, etc. > > If I look on the BabelMap thing - the box holding the 2660 character just > shows an empty box, while its label is "U+2660 BLACK SPADE SUIT" > > Can someone explain what is going on here and why I don't/can/'t see the > black spade on my computer. > > Thanks, > Orly. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as DocuDoc at hotmail.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/docudoc%40hotmail.com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110704/2039ac46/attachment.html>
