Yay for Richmond! reported working here too... ubuntu jaunty On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Richmond Mathewson < [email protected]> wrote:
> Going about things the wrong way! > > Try this one: > > set the useUnicode to true > set the unicodeText of fld "euro" to (NumToChar(8364)) > > 8364 is the Decimal of Hex 20AC > > works on the G4 Mac, > get (at least) a single character, instead of the 3 generated by the > previous script > on Ubuntu 8.04 > > BLAST! > > references: http://unicode.org/reports/tr8/#Euro%20Sign > > font used: FreeMono.ttf > > > Andre Garzia wrote: > >> Richmond, >> >> except that you can resize the pngs and jpegs using rev itself and thus >> had >> a image that will always look good. Before setting the htmltext, you get >> the >> size of the text font being used and then simply resize your euro icon. If >> you start with a big icon, and reduce it to the current font size, you'll >> not loose quality and can cope with any font size! >> >> resize can happen offscreen and thus be extremely fast for a single icon, >> just create a copy of the original image offscreen and resize it, use its >> ID >> on the htmltext and you're good to go! >> >> no one can stop a good hack! >> >> Andre >> >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Richmond Mathewson < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> The only problem I can see with that is if the end-user has the ability >>> to >>> resize fonts in the text-field; if the fonts are too big the Euro will >>> look >>> small and silly, if the fonts are too small the Euro png will overlap >>> adjacent chars. >>> >>> >>> Andre Garzia wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Klaus, >>>> >>>> want to do a cheap trick? create a little euro sign png or jpeg and use >>>> the >>>> imagesource of char something to put it inside a field, or use the >>>> htmltext >>>> with something like <img src="<id of image>" /> and there you'll have >>>> your >>>> EURO icon inside a field and no need to fiddle with fonts! >>>> >>>> :D >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:15 AM, [email protected] < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> any hint on how to handle crossplatform EURO signs? >>>>> I mean the euro sign is unfortunately NOT translated >>>>> isotomac/mactoiso, so how do you handle user input of this >>>>> (and other) character(s) in your crossplatform apps/stacks/databases? >>>>> >>>>> Not to mention of ERUO signs in label fields, when you do not >>>>> want to loop over all fields and place the appropriate signs >>>>> on "pre-/openstack". >>>>> >>>>> Any hints heavily appreciated, inm the meantime we use "EUR" ;-) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Best >>>>> >>>>> Klaus >>>>> -- >>>>> Klaus Major >>>>> http://www.major.on-rev.com >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> use-revolution mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>>>> subscription preferences: >>>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-revolution mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
