Ralph Shumaker wrote: > James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > >> Ralph Shumaker wrote: >> >> >>> I remember in whendoze95 being able to find (and use) a few check marks >>> from the character mapper. But in the documents I pulled from over >>> there, the check marks didn't survive. Well, that's not true. The >>> character survived, that is the hex code stayed the same, but the >>> appearance of a check mark had vanished. >>> >>> >> >> When you say _the_ "hex code", I suppose you mean a single-byte value >> used in some extension of the 7-bit ASCII standard. >> >> I would guess. maybe 0xFB from "codepage 437". >> >> > > I don't recall. It's been some time now. I remember that the printer > would print it. The hex codes given in this thread will show up on > screen but won't print. > > >> The attempt to deal with the need for many such extensions (for many >> languages) led to the "codepage" mess, which sorta-worked, at least for >> "western" languages. >> >> See >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codepage >> >> But today, the best attempts use unicode character definitions ("U+2713 >> Check Mark") and encoding schemes (eg UTF-8: 0xE2 0x9C 0x93). >> >> If you want to dive in, you can wander around at great length from many >> starting points, such as >> >> http://www.unicode.org/ >> or (say) >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_character_set >> >> > > Got any idea where I might just be able to find some jpg images of a > check mark about the size of an alphanumeric? I merely wish to use it > in gnumeric in its own cell. > >
have you tried googling on images "check mark" ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
