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Salmon Egg
Oct 23, 2013, 7:17:08 PM10/23/13
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In article <SalmonEgg-94F80...@news80.forteinc.com>,
Salmon Egg <Salm...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> In article <5266ef4a$0$10270$c3e8da3$9b4f...@news.astraweb.com>,
> Gary <gar...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am limiting my recording of movies shown on cable (in the U.S.) to
> > four-star movies. I'm looking for a way of getting a list of these
> > four-star movies that will be shown in the next week. I can not seem
> > to be able to search the program guide by movie rating.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to get a list of four-star
> > movies on cable in the next week?
>
> What an intriguing question!
>
> Although I do not wish to spend time solving such a problem, I could not
> help but look at what a star was. I used Zap2it as my source for four
> star movies. I could not cut and paste stars into Microsoft Word or
> Excel. I fiddled a bit with unicode of which I know little.
>
> IIt is also possible that the stars are graphics rather that symbols in
> the sense of being coded as one or two bytes.
>
> Good luck. tell us about your results.
To me, Gary's post was very interesting, but left me with many
questions. The primary one is: How do you find a star character and how
do you type one?
As indicated above, I tried to find how star characters were put into a
Zap2it. I had given up. Today, I got an advertising email that included
a star.
"Air_$399 Lenovo"
On Mail, the star showed up. On my paste into my newsreader, the star
was replaced by the underline.
I was able to copy the segment above from Mail to Microsoft Word and
Excel. I tried to change the font in Word to see if somehow different
fonts had different symbols for ASCII95, the underline. Trying to format
the star in Word with the Format menu, Word always went to the Menlo
Regular font. Using the Font menu, I could ostensibly change the entire
string. But if I selected the star by itself, it always was back to
Menlo Regular. I just changed the string to Courier New. but the star
did not.
In Excel, I pasted the string into a cell. The MID function allowed me
to select the star all by itself for the inside a cell. The CODE
function gave 95 for its ASCII code. Using CHAR(95), however, gave me
the underline.
Even when I went to the cell containing the star, changing the font to
Courier New did not change the star.
This is mighty strange. Who has an explanation?
--
Sam
Conservatives are against Darwinism but for natural selection.
Liberals are for Darwinism but totally against any selection.
Salmon Egg <Salm...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> In article <5266ef4a$0$10270$c3e8da3$9b4f...@news.astraweb.com>,
> Gary <gar...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am limiting my recording of movies shown on cable (in the U.S.) to
> > four-star movies. I'm looking for a way of getting a list of these
> > four-star movies that will be shown in the next week. I can not seem
> > to be able to search the program guide by movie rating.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to get a list of four-star
> > movies on cable in the next week?
>
> What an intriguing question!
>
> Although I do not wish to spend time solving such a problem, I could not
> help but look at what a star was. I used Zap2it as my source for four
> star movies. I could not cut and paste stars into Microsoft Word or
> Excel. I fiddled a bit with unicode of which I know little.
>
> IIt is also possible that the stars are graphics rather that symbols in
> the sense of being coded as one or two bytes.
>
> Good luck. tell us about your results.
To me, Gary's post was very interesting, but left me with many
questions. The primary one is: How do you find a star character and how
do you type one?
As indicated above, I tried to find how star characters were put into a
Zap2it. I had given up. Today, I got an advertising email that included
a star.
"Air_$399 Lenovo"
On Mail, the star showed up. On my paste into my newsreader, the star
was replaced by the underline.
I was able to copy the segment above from Mail to Microsoft Word and
Excel. I tried to change the font in Word to see if somehow different
fonts had different symbols for ASCII95, the underline. Trying to format
the star in Word with the Format menu, Word always went to the Menlo
Regular font. Using the Font menu, I could ostensibly change the entire
string. But if I selected the star by itself, it always was back to
Menlo Regular. I just changed the string to Courier New. but the star
did not.
In Excel, I pasted the string into a cell. The MID function allowed me
to select the star all by itself for the inside a cell. The CODE
function gave 95 for its ASCII code. Using CHAR(95), however, gave me
the underline.
Even when I went to the cell containing the star, changing the font to
Courier New did not change the star.
This is mighty strange. Who has an explanation?
--
Sam
Conservatives are against Darwinism but for natural selection.
Liberals are for Darwinism but totally against any selection.
Wes Groleau
Oct 23, 2013, 10:29:10 PM10/23/13
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On 10-23-2013, 19:17, Salmon Egg wrote:
> On Mail, the star showed up. On my paste into my newsreader, the star
> was replaced by the underline.
Paste it into TextEdit and save as UTF-16
> On Mail, the star showed up. On my paste into my newsreader, the star
> was replaced by the underline.
Then view the hax digits for the star with
od -xc filename
Go back to TextEdit and use Unicode Hex Input to verify that you can
create the star with the same hex digits.
--
Wes Groleau
A bureaucrat is someone who cuts red tape lengthwise.
Davoud
Oct 23, 2013, 11:18:06 PM10/23/13
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Wes Groleau:
> On 10-23-2013, 19:17, Salmon Egg wrote:
> > On Mail, the star showed up. On my paste into my newsreader, the star
> > was replaced by the underline.
>
> Paste it into TextEdit and save as UTF-16
>
> Then view the hax digits for the star with
>
> od -xc filename
>
> Go back to TextEdit and use Unicode Hex Input to verify that you can
> create the star with the same hex digits.
Or open Character Viewer, select "Bullets/Stars" or "Pictographs" and
drag the star of your choice into your document.
--
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you will say in your entire life.
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> On 10-23-2013, 19:17, Salmon Egg wrote:
> > On Mail, the star showed up. On my paste into my newsreader, the star
> > was replaced by the underline.
>
> Paste it into TextEdit and save as UTF-16
>
> Then view the hax digits for the star with
>
> od -xc filename
>
> Go back to TextEdit and use Unicode Hex Input to verify that you can
> create the star with the same hex digits.
drag the star of your choice into your document.
--
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.
usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm
Wes Groleau
Oct 24, 2013, 12:12:08 AM10/24/13
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On 10-23-2013, 23:18, Davoud wrote:
> Wes Groleau:
write a script that looked for a particular character.
--
Wes Groleau
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
> Wes Groleau:
>> Go back to TextEdit and use Unicode Hex Input to verify that you can
>> create the star with the same hex digits.
>
> Or open Character Viewer, select "Bullets/Stars" or "Pictographs" and
> drag the star of your choice into your document.
That would be best if he just needed a star. But I think he wanted to
>> create the star with the same hex digits.
>
> Or open Character Viewer, select "Bullets/Stars" or "Pictographs" and
> drag the star of your choice into your document.
write a script that looked for a particular character.
--
Wes Groleau
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
Salmon Egg
Oct 24, 2013, 7:25:38 AM10/24/13
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In article <l4a6mo$t38$1...@dont-email.me>,
Although I do not expect to spend much more time on the subject (There
are other interesting things to do.) It shows that finding, cutting and
pasting, etc, is not all that simple to do.
Wes Groleau <Grolea...@FreeShell.org> wrote:
> On 10-23-2013, 23:18, Davoud wrote:
> > Wes Groleau:
> >> Go back to TextEdit and use Unicode Hex Input to verify that you can
> >> create the star with the same hex digits.
> >
> > Or open Character Viewer, select "Bullets/Stars" or "Pictographs" and
> > drag the star of your choice into your document.
>
> That would be best if he just needed a star. But I think he wanted to
> write a script that looked for a particular character.
That indeed was the intent of my query.
> On 10-23-2013, 23:18, Davoud wrote:
> > Wes Groleau:
> >> Go back to TextEdit and use Unicode Hex Input to verify that you can
> >> create the star with the same hex digits.
> >
> > Or open Character Viewer, select "Bullets/Stars" or "Pictographs" and
> > drag the star of your choice into your document.
>
> That would be best if he just needed a star. But I think he wanted to
> write a script that looked for a particular character.
Although I do not expect to spend much more time on the subject (There
are other interesting things to do.) It shows that finding, cutting and
pasting, etc, is not all that simple to do.
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