On January 23 2002, Sean Luke <sean_at_cs.gmu.edu> wrote:
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>On Wednesday, January 23, 2002, at 07:36 PM, Markus Rasch wrote:
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>> Why don't hack the internal Fonts and add the Euro symbol by =
deleting=3D20=3D
>
>> another rarely used
>> symbol. As far as I know there are some Font-Hacks out there, so it=3D20
>> should be possible.
>> The problem is, we can not teach the HWR to recognize the Euro =
symbol.=3D20=3D
>
>> But we can use the
>> user dictionary for example to "expand" 'C=3D3D' or 'Eur' or what ever =3D
>you=3D20
>> like to the Euro
>> symbol we just changed in the internal Fonts with our hack.
>
>I cannot speak to the difficulty of replacing a single symbol in the=3D20
>internal fonts. However, Apple's solution to adding the Euro symbol =
to=3D20=3D
>
>the MacRoman font set (also used in the Newton) was to replace the=3D20
>rarely-used character at option-shift-2, which originally looked like =
a=3D20=3D
>
>circle with some diagonal lines coming out of it, and now has been=3D20
>replaced with the Euro (here it is for Mac email programs: =3D80). That=3D20=3D
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>should be the choice for Newtons as well (try typing option-shift-2 on=3D20=3D
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>your Newton onscreen keyboard, and you'll see the symbol).
>
>Sean
>
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Sean,
I have tried it and what I've got was a quotation mark. Does this have to =
do with my german NOS 2.1?
I can't find anything looking like the Eurosymbol on my Newtonkeyboard what =
ever modifier-key combination I try.
??? Matze=
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