[Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT

[Paul Swanson]

What I wrote worked for me in desktop Xerte. All of the text in the text
icon must be within the curly braces and must be quoted.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-
> bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Barne
> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 9:08 AM
> To: 'Xerte discussion list'
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT
> 
> None of these methods seem to work, I'm afraid. It is Toolkits I am
> using.
> Is that the reason?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Paul
Swanson
> Sent: 04 April 2011 4:36 PM
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT
> 
> It's got to be in an expression, I think:
> 
> {'Here is some plain text with this \u2192 Unicode in it.'}
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-
> > bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
> > Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 8:15 AM
> > To: Xerte discussion list
> > Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT
> >
> > Or paste in the character itself from somewhere?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-
> > bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
> > Sent: 04 April 2011 15:59
> > To: Xerte discussion list
> > Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT
> >
> > Dunno it ought to work. Try escaping the \ like \\u
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-
> > bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Barne
> > Sent: 04 April 2011 15:51
> > To: Xerte discussion list
> > Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT
> >
> > If I put that in a XOT text box, I just get \uAABBCCDD. Something
> > you're not telling me?
> >
> >
> >
> > On 4 April 2011 15:00, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>
> > wrote:
> > > They should work, yes, \uAABBCCDD
> > >
> > > ?
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-
> > bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Barne
> > > Sent: 04 April 2011 11:34
> > > To: xerte
> > > Subject: [Xerte] Special characters in XOT
> > >
> > > Is there any way of using special (Unicode?) characters in Xerte?
I
> > > would like to use the IPA symbols for transcribing pronunciation,
> > such
> > > as the schwa.
> > >
> 
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