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nsimeonov
Junior Member

23 Posts

Posted - Aug 16 2007 : 2:30:00 PM

When I try to enter long dashes Em-dash (Alt+0151) instead of the "minus sign" in autotext then I am getting squares instead of the dashes I entered.

Also shorter dashes En-dash (Alt+0150) then get into my code as regular "minus". Other unicode characters work nice, but these 2 seem to be problematic for some reason.

feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
18950 Posts

Posted - Aug 16 2007 : 5:22:56 PM

I think this is covered by:

case=1160

On a related front you say that Alt+0150 is inserted as a regular "minus", when I insert this character on my test system it looks identical to a regular minus sign. I took a screen shot and zoomed in to count the pixels, just to be sure.

zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness

nsimeonov
Junior Member

23 Posts

Posted - Nov 20 2009 : 11:37:42 AM

Yes but 151 is longer and if you put a few of them together it looks like a line. Would be nice if we can use it.

I am using a minus sign and got used to it, still this will make the code look nicer.

Edited by - nsimeonov on Nov 20 2009 11:39:13 AM