--- "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
wrote:

> When MSWord makes an (ugly) arrow when you type -->,
> where does it get
> it from? It's not the (much nicer) Symbol arrow, and
> when you choose it,
> it just claims to be in the font that you typed it
> in. It even gets
> sloped when marked Italic, unlike the Symbol arrow.
> The other AutoText
> substitutions are just characters in the text font
> -- curly quotes,
> ellipsis dots.
> --
> Peter T. Daniels
> grammatim@...

You could try cutting and pasting some text including
that character into a plain text editor such as
Notepad and see if it is preserved.

Another thing you can do is save it as HTML and then
look at that HTML file with a plain text editor to see
how it is saved.

Let me see if this cybercafe machine has Word...

Method one gives me a box so whatever it is, it's not
in the font Notepad uses here: „³

Searching FileFormat.Info for this character tells me
that it's U+F0E0 and that it is not a valid Unicode
character.

Method two shows me that just for that character, the
font "Wingdings" is specified.

So it looks to me like it's a custom MS character
supported by some of their own fonts but not part of
Unicode.

Andrew Dunbar.

> [Moderator's notice: my apoligies to Peter and
> everybody else for the great delay in approving this
> message...]
>
>
>
>

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