Joe,
Thanks for the info. After your post I went to the Internet and found
the following link:
http://home.earthlink.net/~awinkelried/keyboard_shortcuts.html
It lists how to enter, via a keyboard, all the odd symbols.
TJ
On Apr 22, 2007, at 7:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Apr 21, 2007, at 22:13 UTC, TJ Hanson, PhD wrote:
>
>> Solved. The Mac ASCII decimal value for a degree symbol is 161.
>
> That's not an ASCII value; ASCII values range from 0-127 only.
>
>> To fetch a degree symbol, use
>>
>> DIM S AS STRING
>> S = Encodings.MacRoman.Chr(161)
>
> That'll do it on a Mac, at least as long as Apple continues to support
> MacRoman (which at this point is a legacy encoding). It is not likely
> to work on other platforms, though. A better way is to use the
> Unicode
> character, Encodings.UTF8.Chr(&hB0). Or, even simpler, just type it
> right into the code editor or property where you want it, i.e. "°".
> REALbasic is fully Unicode-savvy; there's no reason not to type pretty
> much any character that exists anyplace you can type in RB.
>
> Best,
> - Joe
>
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