Re: What's with the ¥ character?

[Andre.Bisseret]

Le 15 sept. 09 à 23:26, Jim Ault a écrit :

> ......
> The key term is you want is "Character Map"
>
> For the Mac follow these steps
> Mac OS X character map and keyboard viewer.
>
> First, open System Preferences and show the International settings  
> pane (in the top row of icons).
> Second, select the Input Menu tab and check the Keyboard Palette  
> checkbox. Check the menu box that reads "Show input menu in menu bar".
> Now you will notice an icon in your system's top menu bar, probably  
> the U.S. flag. This the input menu.

Hi Jim,
I had set the flag in my menu bar (the French one) but
thanks a lot for the following information I never paid attention  
to ;  that's a very useful part of OSX actually; magnifique  ;-))

Best regards from Grenoble
André

> When you click on the menu you can select "Show Keyboard Viewer" and  
> the palette will open, allowing you to select a font and hold down  
> Option, Shift, Command keys to view keyboard combinations.
> Extra bonus functionality:
> While displaying the Keyboard Viewer, change your font in the  
> document and the keyboard viewer will type in that selected font,  
> showing the high-ascii symbols accordingly.
>
> --------  very cool part of OSX
> Choose Character Map from the Country Flag in the Mac menubar and  
> explore how it will show you all of the fonts that contain a  
> particular character and what it will look like.
> You can drag and drop chars from the listings to add them to your  
> documents.
> Even allows browsing of unicode char sets and specifying the iso-set
>
> For a bullet character, choose view 'all characters', then click on  
> Punctuation triangle, then 'Punctuation', then scroll down to the
> triangular bullet,     the bullet, and     the white bullet (a  
> unicode char)
> Click on the 'bullet' char and below you will see the 70 or so fonts  
> that have that character.
> Choose 'Modern' instead of 'Containing selected character' and you  
> will see about 35-40 fonts that have a bullet character.
>
> ---------
> Tool for Windows
> http://wareseeker.com/free-character-map-font-viewer/
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
>