> At 06:04 PM 11/8/00, R. Bhakti Klein wrote:
>>> in some places, in text members, i need to display what's called an
>>> m-dash, which is a long hyphen. shift option dash on the mac.
>>> �
>>> that was it, but i don't know how it looks on your machine.
>>>
>>> anyhoo, it's not displaying in windows machines. nothing at all. el
>>> blanko. it seems like it's mapping it to a different ascii number, but
>>> when we put the right character into that number using fontographer, it
>>> still ignored it.
>
> FWIW, that char can be typed into Win boxes by holding down Alt, hit 0151
> (on the number pad), then release the Alt key.
>
> Also:
> put charToNum("�")
> -- 151
>
> So... perhaps you can edit the fontMap.txt file. I believe it's defaulting
> to
> Mac: => Win: 209=>151 and
> Win: => Mac: 151=>209
>
> I don't have a Mac available, so I don't know what char 209 is on the Mac.
> HTH.
>
>
> --
> Mark A. Boyd
> Keep-On-Learnin' :)
On a mac it seems to be 126;
put numToChar(126)
-- "~"
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or
http://www.ultimatum.dk/ask/director/
and click on "Show font-content"
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