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Mr_Foxcroft
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July 23, 2013
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Entering a Unicode Value as a Bullet in an Autonumber Format

  • July 23, 2013
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If anybody knows how to enter a Unicode Value as a Bullet in an Autonumber Format, please tell me.

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    Mr_FoxcroftAuthor
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    July 23, 2013

    Arnis:

    Thank you so much for your help! Unfortunately, it didn't work. I'm running FM v7.2, and it "claims" to support unicode, but it now seems evident that it does not support entering unicode as a bullet in an autonumber format. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

    My goal was to use the right-pointing triangle as a bullet. That character can be found in Times New Roman as unicode 25BA.

    Instead, I decided to use the right-pointing triangle found in the ZapfDingbat BT font. Its hex code is \xe4.

    Hex code can be used as a bullet in an autonumber format in v7.2.

    Why don't I just upgrade to the latest version of FM? Well, v7.2 has always met my needs.

    Sincerely,

    Mr. Foxcroft

    Bob_Niland
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    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 23, 2013

    > Unfortunately, it didn't work.

    What was the failure mode?

    Did it throw an error, display a garbage character, or blank?

    You need to rule out the possibility that it did work, but the font being used for the bullet does not have that Unicode code point populated with a glyph.

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    Mr_FoxcroftAuthor
    Participant
    July 23, 2013

    As for failure mode, I don't understand what you mean by that. However, I can supply a symptom when the unicode is entered.

    When I type \u25ba in the autonumber format textbox, while using a character format based on Times New Roman, the string "\u25ba" appears as the bullet. No symbol or image appears on the page, only the string \u25ba. So that makes me think unicode is not supported as an autonumber format in v7.2.

    Do you have any thoughts about that?

    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    July 23, 2013

    Use the unicode value format:

    \uNNNN, where NNNN is the 4-digit unicode value.

    Bob_Niland
    Community Expert
    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 23, 2013

    >  \uNNNN, where NNNN is the 4-digit unicode value.

    4 hexadecimal digit, I presume.

    That would cover the first 65536 code points in Unicode, but Unicode is an open-ended encoding, and is already up to 110,181 glyphs.

    In the FM versions that support \u notation in dialogs (which might not include 7.2), is there any provision for denoting glyphs with code points of over 16 bits?

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    Mr_FoxcroftAuthor
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    July 23, 2013

    Actually, I don't understand the question. I don't know what you mean by a "provision for denoting glyphs with code points of over 16 bits."

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