HTML representation of 'less than or equal to' - not cross-platform?

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Graham,

Apparently, I misread the subject header of your e-mail. So, you have 
trouble with the less-than-or-equal-to and the greater-than-or-equal-to 
characters.

BTW I think that these characters are in the MacRoman character set but 
not in the Latin-1 character set, which means that you can refer to them 
by their ASCII values on Mac, but not on Windows.

I just tried this on Windows 8.1:

on mouseUp
      set the htmlText of fld 1 to "<p>≥</p>"
end mouseUp

and it works fine. I can also change ge to le and that works too. If I 
execute

put the htmltext of fld 1

in the message box, I get the expected values and not the numerical 
values you are seeing.

I tried this in LC 6.6.2 on Windows 8.1. Perhaps it is a 6.6.5-specific bug.

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Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

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On 10/31/2014 18:01, Graham Samuel wrote:
> Thanks Mark for the reply.
>
> No, ‘lt' is less than and ‘gt' is greater than: these symbols are readily available on both the Mac and PC character sets, so if the objective is simply to display the correct glyph, it doesn’t matter if one shows them as html or just a simple character. My issue is with 'less than or equal' (and in principle ‘greater than or equal’). These are represented on the regular Mac keyboard as option-comma and option-period, but these codes are not the same on the PC. Hence my need to use html, since these characters are part of the standard html repertoire.
>
> A possible (but not very probably IMHO) cause of the problem is that ‘le’ and ‘ge’ are not in the LC dictionary as recognised subset-html characters dealt with by LC: but in fact they do work, just not when switched from Mac to PC. Odd.
>
> Graham
>