building cross-platform Windows and Mac

[william humphrey]

Thanks for all the help. I was hoping LC 7 would do all the work for me.

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:
>
> On Jan 5, 2015, at 3:53 PM, william humphrey <bill at bluewatermaritime.com> wrote:
>
>> I noticed that √ which is a checkmark on Mac-OS is | a pipe symbol on Windows.
>>
>> Is there a font I can choose on my design that will work the same on
>> Windows and Mac?
>>
>> I hope I don't have to put a bunch of "check which platform and do
>> this or that".  I assumed the font characters were the same and I'm
>> kind of surprised.
>
> The Unicode character for checkmark is U+2713 (decimal 10,003), so if you’re using LC 7 just be sure to use that code point in your field. However, even in pre-v.7 you can set the character as an html unicode entity:
>
>   set the htmltext of fld 1 to "✓”
>
> HTH
>
> Devin
>
> Devin Asay
> Office of Digital Humanities
> Brigham Young University
>
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