In a galaxy far far away, we commonly used option-8 on the Mac to get a bullet glyph or symbol. At some point while converting databases from Mac to Windows this was changed to Char(165). Now, I see that Char(165), in a converted database, gives me the Yen sign. I’ve stumbled on the fact that Char(8226) gives me the bullet symbol in Windows but I don’t understand it.
So Option-8 on the Mac and Char(8226) via 4D seem to give me the same character, where Bbedit reports the character as: Hex: E2 80 A2 Decimal: 226 128 162 Unicode: 2022 Why is the decimal value of 8226 not mentioned in the data above? Is there a 4d command that takes unicode values as a parameter, such that I could input 2022 and get the bullet glyph? Also when you look at the wiki referenced by the 4D docs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters>) and refer to the bullet, you get “U+2022” and what seems like a decimal value of 916. Where is the 916 coming from and why is the unicode value written as “U+2022”, do you ever have to type “U+”? Sorry for such a fundamental question, I guess it’s time to learn more about character sets. Thanks, Robert ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
