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RE: Help with searching for carriage return symbol



Reply to note from TBaehr@xxxxxxxx Tue, 11 Dec 2001 09:45:59 EST

> >From Carl: "In the Jumbo U2, we use a Speedo character in the
> unassigned range [910]-[1021], usually either [999] or [1000]
> [as the SEarch/CHange separator]."
>
> Will this work in NBWin or XyWin set up for TrueType? I have
> neither, so I can't test. But if I key in Alt+999 in WordPad, I
> get "t"; if I key in Alt+1000 I get "F" - and if I search for
> the ordinary characters ("t" or "F" from the keyboard, I find
> them.

Yes, it works across the board. TrueType is irrelevant, as is the
fact that WordPad (and any other non-XyWrite-based program) doesn't
recognize these 3-byte sequences. In the Xy-realm, they're treated
as a single character and work as SEarch/CHange separators.

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Carl Distefano
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