Crossplatform EURO sign?

[Richmond Mathewson]

According to the documentation Bitstream Vera is a unicode font,
but your added code didn't "bite".

Devin Asay wrote:
>
> On Jun 10, 2009, at 8:40 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
>
>> Just tried that by running up a stack on Mac:
>>
>> worked on Mac,
>>
>> didn't on Ubuntu 8.04     sorry!
>
> Sometimes you first have to set the field's font to a unicode font. 
> What happens if you assign a unicode font to the field, then set the 
> unicode text? Something like:
>
>   set the textfont of fld "euro" to "font-name-here,unicode"
>   set the unicodeText of fld "euro" to \
>     uniencode((numToChar(226) & numToChar(130) & numToChar(172)),"utf8")
>
> At any rate, if the OS doesn't find a font with the symbol in it, it 
> won't be able to render it.
>
> Devin
>
>>
>> Devin Asay wrote:
>
>>> The only reliable way I can see is UTF-8. On my Mac the UTF-8 ASCII
>>> equivalent string is €. But that's different on Windows, so I looked
>>> at the ASCII code points for the three characters. They are 226 130
>>> 172. So I tried the following and it reliably rendered the Euro sign
>>> on both Mac and Windows (no Linux here for me to try, but it should
>>> work there, too.)
>>>
>>> set the unicodeText of fld "euro" to \
>>> uniencode((numToChar(226) & numToChar(130) & numToChar(172)),"utf8")
>>>
>>> That ought to work for you.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Devin
>>>
>>> Devin Asay
>>> Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
>>> Brigham Young University
>>>
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> Devin Asay
> Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
> Brigham Young University
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