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From: Mike Horvath
Subject: Infinity symbol
Date: 9 Dec 2015 19:28:10
Message: <5668c71a$1@news.povray.org>

I'm trying to paste the infinity symbol ∞ into POV-Ray but it keeps 
replacing the symbol with the number 8. How do I get around this? I am 
using utf8 for the text encoding.

Mike

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From: Mike Horvath
Subject: Re: Infinity symbol
Date: 9 Dec 2015 19:48:14
Message: <5668cbce@news.povray.org>

On 12/9/2015 7:28 PM, Mike Horvath wrote:
> I'm trying to paste the infinity symbol ∞ into POV-Ray but it keeps
> replacing the symbol with the number 8. How do I get around this? I am
> using utf8 for the text encoding.
>
> Mike


Can I use unicode escape sequences? I don't see them mentioned in the docs.

Mike

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From: Todd Carnes
Subject: Re: Infinity symbol
Date: 9 Dec 2015 20:30:41
Message: <5668d5c1$1@news.povray.org>

On 2015-12-09 16:28, Mike Horvath wrote:
> I'm trying to paste the infinity symbol ∞ into POV-Ray but it keeps
> replacing the symbol with the number 8. How do I get around this? I am
> using utf8 for the text encoding.
>
> Mike

Are you sure it's not the infinity symbol just standing up on end? Maybe 
you just need a translation to rotate it onto it's side?

I don't know. It's just a suggestion.

Todd

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From: Mike Horvath
Subject: Re: Infinity symbol
Date: 9 Dec 2015 21:43:41
Message: <5668e6dd$1@news.povray.org>

On 12/9/2015 8:30 PM, Todd Carnes wrote:
> Are you sure it's not the infinity symbol just standing up on end? Maybe
> you just need a translation to rotate it onto it's side?
>
> I don't know. It's just a suggestion.
>
> Todd
>

LOL! Nope!


Mike

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From: Le Forgeron
Subject: Re: Infinity symbol
Date: 10 Dec 2015 01:33:06
Message: <56691ca2$1@news.povray.org>

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Le 10/12/2015 01:48, Mike Horvath a écrit :
> On 12/9/2015 7:28 PM, Mike Horvath wrote:
>> I'm trying to paste the infinity symbol ∞ into POV-Ray but it
>> keeps replacing the symbol with the number 8. How do I get around
>> this? I am using utf8 for the text encoding.
>> 
>> Mike
> 
> 
> Can I use unicode escape sequences? I don't see them mentioned in
> the docs.
> 
> Mike

I guess you are on windows. I do not know about the copy-paste
capability of the editor.

there is an escape sequence in povray...

global_settings { charset utf8 }

#local UnicodeString="\ueaa0\ueab0";

As long as the glyph code is less than 0xFFFF. The glyphs needing more
than 2 bytes are not available.

Infinity is 0x221E, so you're fine.

But that is only half of your problem: the font used (in a text{})
must also have the relevant character.

http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/3.6.2/263/
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