Re: [BLACKBOX] Symbol σ

From: [at]} <Gunnar>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:47:01 +0100

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 "s"
> 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 s 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 s 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 s is the
> Symbol Code
> s 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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