In my opinion the best way would be to show the hex value in a single glyph space if possible, maybe show the two hex characters at half size. The characters at \x2400 are also a good option. Lucida Sans Unicode has the characters. Switching between both modes would be great.
Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Benson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 15:29 > To: Birkelbach, Carsten; Paulo Soares; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: AW: [iText-questions] Fonts > > The reason I am asking these questions is because I > have hex-editing interests. I have a Java hex editor > project on the back burner, as well as being a > developer on the Jext Java Text Editor project > (www.jext.org), which has a Character Map plugin > ported from JEdit. This discussion has been helpful, > especially these links among which was the Control > pictures glyphs table. I see in the table that these > are mapped to \u2400+ but they appear to correspond to > what I know as ASCII 00 and up. > > Hypothetically speaking, since I apparently don't know > much about fonts, only what I am accustomed to, what > would be the MOST CORRECT glyph to display in > representation of a linefeed, for example? A box? > The linefeed LF control picture? If these control > pictures would be the thing for me to use, where would > I find a font with these glyphs? > > -Matt > > > --- "Birkelbach, Carsten" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What is at \u0001 , > > > > NUL > > > > > \u0002 > > > > SOH > > > > > , etc? Nothing? > > > > see http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf > > > > all UNICODE 3: http://www.unicode.org/charts/ > > > > > > > Mit freundlichem Gruß / kind regards > > > > Carsten Birkelbach > > --- > > Siemens AG > > Siemens Business Services GmbH & Co OHG > > BAP HRS 3, PDB HN > > Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1 > > 33106 Paderborn > > Deutschland > > Fon: +49 5251 8-25803 > > Fax: +49 5251 8-25209 > > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions