How'd They Do That?

Thradia · 19th October 2005, 09:11 AM

Player: i see people putting hearts and squares and circles in their text. how do they do that?

Draconi: Nifty, isn't it?

The fontset that UO uses for speech and books and whatnot is actually very Unicode friendly. Mind you, it doesn't support the full set of Unicode characters, but it does do quite a few. Pretty much most of the Romanic languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hearts, Diamonds, Boxes, Lines, Fun Symbols, and a few other things I can't think of are as easy to do as Copy-Pasting them into the game! (For actual languages of course, the IME in Windows handles it)

So, for instance, if you have a full Unicode font on your system you could go to Charmap and find the symbols you wanted, copy them, and then switch to UO and hit Ctrl-V to paste them in.

If you don't have a full Unicode font installed, I happen to find this site very useful:

http://www-atm.physics.ox.ac.uk/user/iwi/charmap.html

For instance, when you load the page you'll be at 00: Basic Latin, Latin 1. So select 26: Misc Symbols from the drop down list. Quite a few of those actually work in the game! Off the top of my head I know most of the musical notes do.

Enjoy!
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Epona · 19th October 2005, 10:58 AM

ooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh

I still dont get it

Tukaram · 19th October 2005, 04:53 PM

Cool. I wondered how they were doing it. (Just never tried to figure out) I may have to go play with that now.

**Ally** · 19th October 2005, 05:02 PM

Umm... still don't get it either.

Santi · 19th October 2005, 05:30 PM

Yeah...I didn't get jack out of reading that. Things are soooo complicated.

19th October 2005, 09:11 AM	#1
Thradia licks Join Date: Apr 2004 Shard: Napa Valley Posts: 1,352 Gold: 445 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	How'd They Do That? Player: i see people putting hearts and squares and circles in their text. how do they do that? Draconi: Nifty, isn't it? The fontset that UO uses for speech and books and whatnot is actually very Unicode friendly. Mind you, it doesn't support the full set of Unicode characters, but it does do quite a few. Pretty much most of the Romanic languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hearts, Diamonds, Boxes, Lines, Fun Symbols, and a few other things I can't think of are as easy to do as Copy-Pasting them into the game! (For actual languages of course, the IME in Windows handles it) So, for instance, if you have a full Unicode font on your system you could go to Charmap and find the symbols you wanted, copy them, and then switch to UO and hit Ctrl-V to paste them in. If you don't have a full Unicode font installed, I happen to find this site very useful: http://www-atm.physics.ox.ac.uk/user/iwi/charmap.html For instance, when you load the page you'll be at 00: Basic Latin, Latin 1. So select 26: Misc Symbols from the drop down list. Quite a few of those actually work in the game! Off the top of my head I know most of the musical notes do. Enjoy! (This moment in edutainment was brought to you by Draconi: Mostly Harmless)

19th October 2005, 10:58 AM	#2
Epona You Have Been Epownt! Join Date: Sep 2004 Shard: Catskills Posts: 687 Gold: 1,122 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: How'd They Do That? ooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh I still dont get it

19th October 2005, 04:53 PM	#3
Tukaram Old & grouchy Join Date: Apr 2004 Shard: Great Lakes Posts: 1,400 Gold: 93 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: How'd They Do That? Cool. I wondered how they were doing it. (Just never tried to figure out) I may have to go play with that now. Tuka Kinsmen are born. Friendship is a gift of the gods.

19th October 2005, 05:02 PM	#4
Ally The Couch Hottie Join Date: Aug 2004 Shard: Lake Austin, Atlantic Posts: 4,425 Gold: 3,139 My Mood: Thanks: 37 Thanked 12 Times in 11 Posts	Re: How'd They Do That? Umm... still don't get it either.

19th October 2005, 05:30 PM	#5
Santi El Mero Mero Join Date: Apr 2004 Shard: Legends Posts: 589 Gold: 92 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: How'd They Do That? Yeah...I didn't get jack out of reading that. Things are soooo complicated.

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