Squeak 3.6 Full version - character ^ not working

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Mon Aug 23 13:44:14 UTC 2004


On Monday 23 August 2004 1:14 am, Frank Shearar wrote:
> If you mean that when you press "^" you get a funny up arrow, and when you
> press "_" you get an arrow pointing to the left, then the character still
> works - Squeak just renders it differently. If you sent a mail containing
> "^" or "_" from within Squeak, say as a bug report, they'll appear as
> normal in the sent email if you read the mail from another machine. In the
> other direction, if you have a file called arb_file_name.txt and you open a
> FileList, you'll see something like "arb<-file<-name.txt" instead, as
> Squeak renders the "_" as a left arrow.
>
> It does strike newcomers as strange. (Well, it _still_ strikes me as
> strange, but anyway :) )

It depends on what fonts you have loaded. For instance, if you load my 
Freetype fonts demo package from SqueakMap, you will get both Squeakified 
(i.e. with up and left arrows) and non-Squeak versions of the Bitstream Vera 
fonts.

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Ned Konz
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