yes, that's a big help, thanks.
209 on mac, by the way, maps to enya, n-squiggle, like in spanish.
--bh
"Mark A. Boyd" wrote:
>
> 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
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