Douglas,

since BB is using Unicode, Greek letters are available as well. If you 
consult the code page at
http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0370.pdf

you find that the code in 03C3.
83C3 does not seem to work for me (see attached screenshot).

I have no idea how to enter it directly with the keyboard though. :-(

greeting
gunnar

Douglas G. Danforth schrieb:
> Folks,
>
> The following Greek symbol "σ"
> I copied from a Wikipedia page.
> It appears correctly in this HTML email as I paste it here.
> I hope you can see it after I send this message.
>
> Now I am amazed, flummoxed, startled, that this
> symbol can be entered and appear correctly.
> In a BlackBox document it also appears correctly.
>
> BUT HOW DO I TYPE IT!!!??
>
> If I select it in a BB document and do an attribute for the symbol it 
> is listed as my standard font.
> Not a new font!  So in a standard font there exist Greek letters!?
>
> If I open a file as a data file that was stored with σ then I can find
> the hex code for it which seems to be C3� 83.
>
> I have tried to use that code in a program to regenerate it but the symbol
> produced is not σ but rather a square box which is the catch all for 
> unknown
> character.  I tried reversing the order to� 83 C3 but that gave the 
> same box.
>
> Here is the code that I am using to generate the text.
>
> MODULE Symbols;
> (*
> The symbol σ is the
> Symbol    Code
> σ    C3�83
> *)
>     IMPORT
>         StdCmds,
>         TextMappers,
>         TextModels,
>         TextViews;
>        
>     PROCEDURE Write*;
>         VAR
>             model: TextModels.Model; wr: TextModels.Writer;
>     BEGIN
>         TextViews.Deposit;
>         StdCmds.Open;
>         model := TextViews.FocusText();
>         wr := model.NewWriter(NIL);
>         wr.WriteChar(0C383X);
>     END Write;
>    
> END Symbols.
>
>
> Any suggestions for how I can generate these Greek symbols?
> (Yes I know I can use the font 'Symbol' to get Greek but I really
> want to know what is going on with the 16 bit code.  I am using
> BB1.5)
>
> -Doug
>
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