at the temporal coordinates: 1/24/02 10:13 AM, the entity known as Sean Luke
at sean_at_cs.gmu.edu conveyed the following:
>
> On Thursday, January 24, 2002, at 08:01 AM, newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
> wrote:
>
>> I have tried it and what I've got was a quotation mark. Does this have
>> to =
>> do with my german NOS 2.1?
>
> Yes. The US MacRoman Keyboard has the little circle symbol on
> shift-option-2.
> But other languages use other keyboards, of course. You'll have to hunt
> around
> to find it on the German keyboard perhaps. It looks like a circle with
> four
> diagonal lines coming out of it. A (poorly shown) version of the symbol
> is labeled "DB" on the following chart:
> http://czyborra.com/charsets/mac-roman.gif
>
> This symbol has been replaced by Apple with the Euro symbol in modern
> Macintosh computers. It was NOT replaced in the Newton, simply because
> the
> Newton wasn't being manufactured by Apple any more.
>
> If someone wants to add the Euro symbol to the standard fonts, and
> someone else
> can show them how to replace a single glyph (I doubt that's even
> possible --
> more likely you'll need to replace the whole font, which breaks some apps
> such as NewtWorks) then this is the particular glyph you should replace.
>
> Sean
>
Besides, aren't the standard issue fonts built-in (i.e., in some sort of
ROM)? It would be rather hard to alter those fonts, wouldn't it?
- Eric.
--Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)
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