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Thread #127492   Message #2846034
Posted By: JohnInKansas
21-Feb-10 - 04:03 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Seeing any funny characters?
Subject: RE: Tech: Seeing any funny characters?
Bill D

Hex 26A7 is NOT DEFINED in the Unicode Standard, and it's unlikely that it's going to be reliably displayed in any browser.

In the 2600 range, undifined values are

2618, 267E, 267F, 2692 through 269F, 26A2 through 26FF.

NONE OF THESE are likely to work no matter how you type them in.

The undefined chars can be used by a computer, by installing a special purpose character mapping, but it's useless to produce something that's only readable on your own machine (unless you're a person of rather narcisistic kind, which I suppose might be applicable here).

Microsoft got away with mapping the € euro to ANSI 128 since it was an unassigned number and they gave everybody with Windows the new char map(s). If you're able to make an undef char work, you've got a rather immense distribution problem getting your char def distributed to the rest of the world.

        

John