I am trying to insert a copyright symbol into a string of text for an 
image.  I cannot get this to work - if I copy the symbol in from word it 
appears in the povray editor, but when rendered appears as a blank 
space.  I've not found a font where the copyright symbol can be typed in 
using the normal keys on the keyboard.  I've tried using different fonts 
with no luck.  Is there a way around this?  Can a directly select a 
character using it's font and hex code?  For example, the copyright 
symbol is #00E3 in "symbol.ttf".

Thanx in advance

Bryan

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Wasn't it Bryan Heit who wrote:
>I am trying to insert a copyright symbol into a string of text for an 
>image.  I cannot get this to work - if I copy the symbol in from word it 
>appears in the povray editor, but when rendered appears as a blank 
>space.  I've not found a font where the copyright symbol can be typed in 
>using the normal keys on the keyboard.  I've tried using different fonts 
>with no luck.  Is there a way around this?  Can a directly select a 
>character using it's font and hex code?  For example, the copyright 
>symbol is #00E3 in "symbol.ttf".

Have you tried setting charset utf-8 in your global settings? 
The default charset is ASCII.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure

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Mike Williams wrote:
> Wasn't it Bryan Heit who wrote:
>> I am trying to insert a copyright symbol into a string of text for an 
>> image.  I cannot get this to work - if I copy the symbol in from word it 
>> appears in the povray editor, but when rendered appears as a blank 
>> space.  I've not found a font where the copyright symbol can be typed in 
>> using the normal keys on the keyboard.  I've tried using different fonts 
>> with no luck.  Is there a way around this?  Can a directly select a 
>> character using it's font and hex code?  For example, the copyright 
>> symbol is #00E3 in "symbol.ttf".
> 
> Have you tried setting charset utf-8 in your global settings? 
> The default charset is ASCII.

That will not help at all as the character he enters won't be a valid UTF-8 
character. He needs to either use \u00E3 in the string or use a UTF-8 input 
file (not create-able with the POV-Ray editors currently), as explained in 
the documentation.

	Thorsten, POV-Team

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Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> Mike Williams wrote:
> 
>> Wasn't it Bryan Heit who wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to insert a copyright symbol into a string of text for an 
>>> image.  I cannot get this to work - if I copy the symbol in from word 
>>> it appears in the povray editor, but when rendered appears as a blank 
>>> space.  I've not found a font where the copyright symbol can be typed 
>>> in using the normal keys on the keyboard.  I've tried using different 
>>> fonts with no luck.  Is there a way around this?  Can a directly 
>>> select a character using it's font and hex code?  For example, the 
>>> copyright symbol is #00E3 in "symbol.ttf".
>>
>>
>> Have you tried setting charset utf-8 in your global settings? The 
>> default charset is ASCII.
> 
> 
> That will not help at all as the character he enters won't be a valid 
> UTF-8 character. He needs to either use \u00E3 in the string or use a 
> UTF-8 input file (not create-able with the POV-Ray editors currently), 
> as explained in the documentation.
> 
>     Thorsten, POV-Team


The \uooE3 inside the string worked perfectly.  Thank you for your help.

Bryan

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