You also have to specify the font you are using to display the character.
Not every font on the Mac shows a bullet char for that same ascii code.
In fact, that is part of the definition a font. The designer decides which images/vector art to assign to each character.

If it is a 255 character set, then the Yen character is in the high ascii range, and will vary from font to font. You can see which ones do on your Mac by following the steps below.

The key term is you want is "Character Map"

For the Mac follow these steps
Mac OS X character map and keyboard viewer.

First, open System Preferences and show the International settings pane (in the top row of icons). Second, select the Input Menu tab and check the Keyboard Palette checkbox. Check the menu box that reads "Show input menu in menu bar". Now you will notice an icon in your system's top menu bar, probably the U.S. flag. This the input menu. When you click on the menu you can select "Show Keyboard Viewer" and the palette will open, allowing you to select a font and hold down Option, Shift, Command keys to view keyboard combinations.
Extra bonus functionality:
While displaying the Keyboard Viewer, change your font in the document and the keyboard viewer will type in that selected font, showing the high-ascii symbols accordingly.

--------  very cool part of OSX
Choose Character Map from the Country Flag in the Mac menubar and explore how it will show you all of the fonts that contain a particular character and what it will look like. You can drag and drop chars from the listings to add them to your documents.
Even allows browsing of unicode char sets and specifying the iso-set

For a bullet character, choose view 'all characters', then click on Punctuation triangle, then 'Punctuation', then scroll down to the triangular bullet, the bullet, and the white bullet (a unicode char) Click on the 'bullet' char and below you will see the 70 or so fonts that have that character. Choose 'Modern' instead of 'Containing selected character' and you will see about 35-40 fonts that have a bullet character.

---------
Tool for Windows
http://wareseeker.com/free-character-map-font-viewer/


Hope this helps,

Jim Ault
Las Vegas


On Sep 15, 2009, at 3:58 PM, Ray Horsley wrote:

I remember a while back experiencing the bullet character on the Mac "•" changing to the Japanese yen symbol when I moved scripts to Windows. I hope this is helpful, but if not we can always ask Mr. Cragg who knows Japan quite well having lived there on many occasions :)

Ray Horsley
LinkIt! Software

On Sep 15, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Lars Brehmer wrote:

May I'm wrong, but I think there is something odd about the yen sign (¥)

I have a pait of almost identical scripts and each one is applied to a custom property. Among other things, the script filters the custom property with a certain item.

In the first case, the item will be a letter and a number (a1, b2, c4, h3, p1, etc.)

In the second case, the item will be the same with a ¥ as the first character (¥a1, ¥b2, ¥c4, ¥h3,¥1 p1, etc.).

get lineoffset(line z in tText, the catsGrund of this stack)
put item 2 of line it in the catsGrund of this stack into tFilter -- a1, b2, c4, h3, p1, etc. or ¥a1,¥ b2, ¥c4,
            ¥h3,¥1 p1, etc.--
filter tempList with "*" & tFilter & "*"
put the num of lines in templist into fld ("tn" & z)

In the script applied to the custom property without the ¥ symbol, the script works. In the one with the ¥ sympol it doesn't work. Could this have something to do with how Rev deals with the ¥ char in a custom property?

I'm just curious, because I've already worked around it using

repeat for each line X in templist
if tfilter is in item 6 in X or tfilter is in item 7 in X in L then put L & cr after zTemp
end repeat

It works fine and within a millisecond or two just as fast, but again, I'm curious about that ¥.


Cheers!

Lars


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