Character code question
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg48010] Character code question
- From: Mike <m.HoneychurcNOSPAMh at uq.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 08:11:19 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Queensland
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
When you enter \.15 you get a "1/2" displayed. On my system (Mac OS X) this only works for some fonts. That makes sense but the problem is that certain fonts that have this character and display it in eg. A word processing document, don't produce the character in Mathematica. Eg. Times gives "1/2", Times New Roman gives a square box. Additionally the Unicode character coding seems to be different in Mathematica to what system character palette shows. For example the unicode for "1/2" is (in Mathematica syntax) \:00bd according to the Mac OS X character palette. Could someone enlighten me on this? Thanks Mike