Infinity Char on Windows

[Ken Ray]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:14:45 -0700, Mark Greenberg wrote:

> I am trying to port my math stacks from Mac to Windows.  Some of the 
> stacks use the infinity character (like a sideways 8), but in Windows 
> it displays as a box instead.  Does anyone know how I might make that 
> display properly in Windows?  If the solution involves Unicode, be 
> explicit because I've never tried to make Unicode work for me in Rev.

Well, first of all, I'm a bit surprised you get a box on Windows 
instead of a degree symbol. You see the infinity symbol on Macs is 
ASCII 176, which in Windows is the degree symbol. Unfortunately, Most 
Windows fonts do not include the infinity symbol in their high-ASCII 
(ID 128-256) character sets. 

Personally, I'd suggest replacing your Mac-only infinity symbols with 
the symbol from the Symbol font (ASCII 165), which is cross-platform so 
you won't have to do anything special for Windows.


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/