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Anonymous
May 19, 2015
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What is the ANSI number for ⅓

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What is the ANSI number for ⅓ (one third). For Framemaker 11

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wvector
New Participant
April 23, 2019

Greetings from Brazil...

Have You ever tried Windows key/Run/Charmap?

Choose "U+2153 Vulgar Fraction One Third" (obviously without these quotes, ok?)

Good luck with your attempts, @stephengS1658181

pwillener
pwillener
Brainiac
May 19, 2015

You mean the character code?  U+2153 = 0x2153 = ⅓ = 8531 = ⅓

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Anonymous
May 19, 2015

I'm looking for the ANSI No. for typing the fraction ⅓ (one third).

For example:  for ½ - you would type Alt+0189

Bob_Niland
Bob_Niland
Community Expert
May 19, 2015

> I'm looking for the ANSI No. for typing the fraction ⅓ (one third).

> For example:  for ½ - you would type Alt+0189


Was there ever any such ANSI standard for ⅓?


In any legacy font that populated a ⅓ glyph, odds are it was done either by using what is now noncharacter space in Unicode, or by using an overlay/codepage technique (where the code point is some other Unicode character when using a Unicode font). Doing either is now unwise practice.


Use a font that populates the ⅓ character in Unicode, U+2153 Vulgar Fraction One Third.

\u2153

in Framemaker dialog box notation.


There is a way to type arbitrary Unicode character code points on Windows, similar to the Alt+ method, but it may not be enabled by default. Perhaps the easiest thing to do is copy the character out of FM's or Windows' character map applet, or just copy it from this thread.

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