Crossplatform EURO sign?

[Richmond Mathewson]

Andre Garzia wrote:
> Richmond,
>
> except that you can resize the pngs and jpegs using rev itself and thus had
> a image that will always look good. Before setting the htmltext, you get the
> size of the text font being used and then simply resize your euro icon. If
> you start with a big icon, and reduce it to the current font size, you'll
> not loose quality and can cope with any font size!
>
> resize can happen offscreen and thus be extremely fast for a single icon,
> just create a copy of the original image offscreen and resize it, use its ID
> on the htmltext and you're good to go!
>
> no one can stop a good hack!
>   
it is not the good hacks that I am worried about!  :)

it is the hackers who have to remember every fiddly little
bit they have to build into a good hack.
> Andre
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Richmond Mathewson <
> richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> The only problem I can see with that is if the end-user has the ability to
>> resize fonts in the text-field; if the fonts are too big the Euro will look
>> small and silly, if the fonts are too small the Euro png will overlap
>> adjacent chars.
>>
>>
>> Andre Garzia wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Klaus,
>>>
>>> want to do a cheap trick? create a little euro sign png or jpeg and use
>>> the
>>> imagesource of char something to put it inside a field, or use the
>>> htmltext
>>> with something like <img src="<id of image>" /> and there you'll have your
>>> EURO icon inside a field and no need to fiddle with fonts!
>>>
>>> :D
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:15 AM, klaus at major.on-rev.com <
>>> klaus at major.on-rev.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> any hint on how to handle crossplatform EURO signs?
>>>> I mean the euro sign is unfortunately NOT translated
>>>> isotomac/mactoiso, so how do you handle user input of this
>>>> (and other) character(s) in your crossplatform apps/stacks/databases?
>>>>
>>>> Not to mention of ERUO signs in label fields, when you do not
>>>> want to loop over all fields and place the appropriate signs
>>>> on "pre-/openstack".
>>>>
>>>> Any hints heavily appreciated, inm the meantime we use "EUR" ;-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best
>>>>
>>>> Klaus
>>>> --
>>>> Klaus Major
>>>> http://www.major.on-rev.com
>>>> klaus at major.on-rev.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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