[PD] *weird* characters

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Sounds like you should start being an alpha tester for pd-devel.   
moocow is working on getting full UTF-8 support.  But otherwise I  
think you are stuck with latin1, and maybe some others if you are lucky.

.hc

On Mar 12, 2009, at 12:43 AM, potax flan wrote:

> hi
> using [textfile], i want to concatenate long strings of *unusual*  
> characters (like the "triangle" or Delta character you get by  
> pressing ALT, caps, d). maybe there is an alternative to [textfile]?
> Is there a way to handle these characters in pd (have them in a  
> message, then add them to textfile would be wonderful)? if i press  
> ALT caps d while editing a message i get an error rectangle – is it  
> because the font in pd cant deal with the ∆ sign? can i use ascii  
> codes for this? key gives me 8710 for delta, any way i can use that?
> thanks
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