More characters!

**Theophylact** · July 25th, 2002, 12:29 PM

How about a little more flexibility in the characters we can use in posts: at least the full extended ASCII set, if not Unicode?

**vass0922** · July 25th, 2002, 12:49 PM

Umm I would think that would be dictated by vbulletin.

What character are you trying to put up that you can't?
I haven't seen any ascii chars that didn't show up.

**Theophylact** · July 25th, 2002, 02:43 PM

Well, I can't use pi or the square root sign, or the infinity sign, all of which I've tried.

(Qu'est ce que "vbulletin" veut dire?)

Oops -- just noticed "vB Code" -- I suppose that's it -- lemme try "Enhanced Mode".

¶ _

Nope.

**surreal** · July 25th, 2002, 03:51 PM

Well, I've never used this and promise I don't understand this.. I do know I didn't get it right.. but I bet you'll see what I did wrong.
I got my info here
I tired it both ways as code and just plain typing..
(of course the symbol I tried to make didn't work, but my little brain didn't understand the table at first glance either)

Code:

&#227;

Quãest ce que Cãest??

&#227

&_#_227_; is what I typed w/o the underscore...

OK how do you make the darn a go away and just have the tild sign???

**Theophylact** · July 25th, 2002, 07:13 PM

The characters I typed for "pi", "infinity", and "root" were respectively (with NumLock on) <alt>227, <alt>236, <alt>251. I got "paragraph symbol", "blank" and "underscore".

What did you do? That link gave me bupkis.

**strangerstill** · July 25th, 2002, 07:39 PM

These ones?

π ∞ √

I dunno how to type them in, but I got them in Character Map just fine...

Hmm, will this work?

π ∞ √

**strangerstill** · July 25th, 2002, 07:40 PM

Yup, it did.

I typed:

&pi; &infin; &radic;

I use the W3C table as a reference.

**surreal** · July 25th, 2002, 07:43 PM

I used the stuff from the html column. It seems to me the vbs code is very similar to html (in some instances)

Wow strangerstill very cool

**Theophylact** · July 26th, 2002, 08:30 AM

Okay, strangerstill, I'm willing to parade my ignorance:

I'm still missing something. I checked out your link, but I can't figure out hgow to get an "&etc" type character to display. If I simply type "&pi", I get --> &pi. Is there some key-chording needed here, as with ASCII?

Also, what character map are you using? The Windows accessory? Using that, pÖ¥ is what I get for "pi root infinity".

**HomeYield** · July 26th, 2002, 09:25 AM

http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/r2h-extras/rtfunicode.html

This website has it listed but I couldn't get it to work. Some do and some don't. I not sure about why. Try holding alt while typing in the numbers of the 5th column. Hope something works.

**strangerstill** · July 26th, 2002, 01:43 PM

It's not too tricky - really!

What I'm typing into the 'Your Reply' box is literally "&pi; &infin; &radic;"

By the magic of HTML that then gets converted by your own browser into "π & √"

(oh, in case you're wondering, the way I got "&pi;" not to turn into "π" is to cheat, by typing in "&amp;pi;" instead - "&amp;" gives an ampersand "&" character.)

As for character map - I'm using the Windows XP character map, searching for the right characters (in 'advanced' view) then copying into the 'Your Reply' box. I'm using Mozilla - perhaps your browser doesn't support Unicode properly?

**Theophylact** · July 26th, 2002, 01:58 PM

Well, I've used Win98's character map, I'm using (at the moment) IE 5.0, and whether I type &pi or "&pi" I get exactly what you see.

**Theophylact** · July 26th, 2002, 02:07 PM

Hmmm. In Mozilla, it displays okay when I use the "&amp" method; but when I use the character map, I still get "pÖ¥" for "pi infinity root". Weird.

**strangerstill** · July 26th, 2002, 02:08 PM

I see a 'pi' symbol. What do you see?

**strangerstill** · July 26th, 2002, 02:12 PM

Yeah... unfortunately, neither Win98 or IE 5 are particularly good with Unicode. I'm guessing Moz is having trouble getting Unicode from the clipboard - and IE 5 just can't manage Unicode at all!

**Theophylact** · July 26th, 2002, 02:15 PM

I get the "ampersand" character, followed (without spaces) by the letters "p" and "i". IE 5.0 may well not support Unicode properly.

**Theophylact** · July 26th, 2002, 03:49 PM

I've now replaced IE5.0 with IE6.0. It displays correctly π∞√

**Theophylact** · July 31st, 2002, 12:15 PM

strangerstill,

D'oh. I've finally understood what the Unicode reference was trying to tell me: that all the keystrokes -- the "&", the "#", the number, and the ";" were necessary to create the character.

Some of us are slow learners.