Re: TextEncodings. :P

At 7:55 AM -0500 1/31/04, Thomas Reed wrote:

> Well, the first question is, what is chr(240)? By looking at a table 
> of MacRoman characters and comparing to a unicode table, I see the 
> character you're interested in appears to be an Apple logo. But the 
> computer cannot know what you mean by chr(240) unless you tell it. 
> 240 is a different character in different encodings.  It's an Apple 
> symbol in MacRoman, but it's something else in WindowsLatin1, and 
> something else again in Shift-JIS (a Japanese encoding).

And actually, it's not even an Apple symbol in MacRoman, except in a 
small number of special Apple fonts.

However, if U+F8FF is the Apple logo in Unicode, then it always is 
that, irrespective of the font (though of course not all fonts will 
have a glyph for this character).  So the safe way to get this 
character in RB would be Encodings.UTF8.Chr(&hF8FF).

Cheers,
- Joe
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