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Sasun Steinbeck
Quaternions ate my brain
Join date: 17 Sep 2005
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06-06-2006 13:31
How do you get special characters in IM? I've seen people use little hearts, "TM", the copyright symbol, that kind of thing. Yes I know *how* it works, I just want the chart of characters and codes. Anyone know?
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Thili Playfair
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06-06-2006 15:24
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Sasun Steinbeck
Quaternions ate my brain
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06-06-2006 17:29
Yeah there's some in there, but that's not the whole list...
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Lee Linden
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Join date: 31 Dec 1969
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06-07-2006 12:38
The cheat for me is to go to Start->Programs->Accessories->System Tools->Character Map. I'm not sure which font you need to select, but I'm sure someone will jump in with that.
Click on any character and the ALT+xxxx code is listed in the lower right.
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Sasun Steinbeck
Quaternions ate my brain
Join date: 17 Sep 2005
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06-08-2006 12:53
Yep I tried that but maybe the problem is the font I used. I tried Arial. So what font does SL use? Anyone?
I thought, though, that unicode was unicode and the character numbers would all be the same? I tried making for example a little musical note which is code 266B in the character map (which btw is HEX so the decimal code is apparently 9835) but 9835 displayed some other character.
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Lee Linden
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06-09-2006 15:24
A quick check shows that SL uses three fonts:
MetaBookLF-Roman
MetaBoldLF-Roman
ProFontWindows (used for scripts)
These files are located in: c:\program files\secondlife\fonts
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Sasun Steinbeck
Quaternions ate my brain
Join date: 17 Sep 2005
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06-09-2006 18:39
Interesting. After installing these fonts (by dropping them into the fonts folder from the control panel) I can browse them with the Character Map tool but they don't even contain many of the special characters that I've seen people use in IM (i.e. little hearts, etc.). So... that didn't help  Someone obviously knows since I've *seen* those characters being used.
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