special symbol

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, May 29, 2004, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>"Richard D. Williams" wrote:
>> 
>> Does anyone know the code to produce this symbol,  §?
>> 
>> I have looked at the filepro help for chras/ code and I can not find it
>> there.
>
>It's not really up to filePro.  It's up to the device and/or O/S.
>
>How would you enter that symbol at the command prompt?

As a general rule, it's a Good Idea(tm) to stay away from standard ASCII
characters unless you're going to hard copy output.  Viewing special
characters on a screen is going to cause problems.  A good reference to
this is:
	http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/

There is a set of html/sgml/xml codes to represent special characters that
can be used for web publishing and include things like ``&' for
ampersand, ``≤'' for less than or equal.  [xgtn]roff provides special
escape sequences for these special characters as well which are then
translated appropriately for printing.

Bill
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