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Re: Secret Symbols

• Posted by gebrandariz <gebrandariz at YAHOO.COM> Oct 13, 2000
• 392 views

Hello, everybody!

1. Happy faces, sad & inexpressive too. There are many Windows fonts around,
many of them free, which don't come with the Windows installation but with
other products, or just lie around undistributed until someone downloads
them from their creator's site. Fonts including any kind of symbols (i.e.
not letters and numbers) should belong to the "symbol" CharSet, a useful
hint to search for them.

Some "symbol" fonts I have installed (don't ask me where I got them) are:
Almanac MT - Related to time and weather
Bon Apetit MT - Food
Buildings - Architectural design, maps.
CommonBullets - You guessed it
DF Calligraphic Ornaments LET, DF Diversions LET, DF Diversities LET - A lot
of freehand drawings
Directions MT - Arrows
Holidays MT - Holiday symbols, Christian & otherwise
Household - Kettles to TV sets
Keystrokes MT - Computer keys, useful for manuals and help windows
Transport MT, Transportation, Vacation MT, Weather - Need expl?
Webdings - Misc
 And, finally: Wingdings, Wingdings 2 and Windings 3. The first one includes
the three basic faces.

Many of them are useful as clips, in huge fontsizes.

2. Font utilities. Personally, instead of Window's charmap I prefer Sony
Arianto Kurniawan's freeware ExtendedCharacterMap, which can be found at the
Indonesian AriTech site, http://aritechdev.hypermart.net/, and also in
download sites like www.softseek.zdnet.com. My favorite font viewer is Peter
Theill's FontLister, at http://www.theill.com/fl/. FontLister comes in two
versions; one is freeware Win3x, the other is a fully functional $5
shareware for Win9x/NT.

Good luck!

Gerardo E. Brandariz

----- Original Message -----
From: Raude Riwal <RAUDER at THMULTI.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: Secret Symbols


> Run charmap.exe to see the fonts available under windows. you can try
> MS-LineDraw for lines, but without the happy faces.
>
> Riwal
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Kerslake [SMTP:paulk at UNISERVE.COM]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 4:19 AM
> > To:   EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> > Subject:      Secret Symbols
> >
> > HI all,
> >
> >     It has come to my attention that the PC has it's own "secret
> > language", I don't mean binary though. I mean the symbols I have seen
> > like:       , oh, it seems the copy/paste trick doesn't work here. Well,
> > I mean the little happy face and the heart and club etc. I finally
figured
> > these ones out. But, one, or rather more than one. The  ======== lines
in
> > AGBTE2's D1807a.ex are what I'm referring to. These neat little lines
with
> > their well formed and linked corners and the == are linked with no
spaces.
> > Oh yes, and those little squares.
> >
> > Woudst you be so kind as to tell me how to access these mysterious
> > symbols?
> >
> > Thenks,
> > Thomas Kerslake
> >
> > ---------/\=======
> >
> >
> >
> >


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