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Doucet
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I ran a few experiments to see if CCF would accept Greek letters in any way.
All results were the same. It recognizes all letters from the character map except B, gamma, delta, and H.
B& H no problem.....delta, gamma...nope.
I don't know why it would recognize most but not all?
Regards
- " ccf insert code command
Α - ' - " - " Ε Ζ - - Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω...... copy from ms one note
Α - ' - " - " Ε Ζ - - Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω.... copy from ms word.
Α - ' - " - " Ε Ζ - - Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω.... Drag individually direct from windows character map.
Α- '- "- "ΕΖ- - ΙΚΛ..... copy from Type Greek program.
- 'ΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ Α- "ΑΘΟΚΛΕΟΣ.... copy from another web site.
- '- "- "(B,D & Gamma)..... copy from excel.
- "(delta).... copy from PDF file
- "ΕΛTΑ copy from greek translator.
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Pillar Of The Community
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I've ran across this difficulty too. It would be nice to encode not just Greek, but Cyrillic characters too. I think I have solved this by using html character encoding, within code brackets--does this work for you? #915; , #916;, #946; Update: this works in preview mode, but not when I post it. 
Edited by DVCollector 02/07/2012 7:07 pm
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Pillar Of The Community
United States
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Yea, they all work when your composing your post , but not when you post it..?
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Pillar Of The Community
United Kingdom
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I've had similar / the same problems, it can be a real pain. I'm not sure what font the forum uses and I guess thats at the root of the problem. I have also designed some characters to cover some of the more peculiar marks on later Roman coins, a few examples here:  They are listed as symbols in a font I butchered. I was surprised nothing was already available on-line. Unfortunately these only work on my PC and saved Excel files loose details on other peoples machines. Maybe we should design our own downloadable font with all of these strange marks in it?
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Pillar Of The Community
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I tried putting a couple of Greek letters once in a post, then I clicked Preview to see if they would pop up but they didn't.
Edit: just added these: α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π ρ σ ς τ υ φ χ ψ ω " " Θ Λ Ξ Π Σ Φ Ψ Ω
"A poor Roman plays the Goth, a rich Goth the Roman." - Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths Attributed coins in my collection so far - Roman: 179, Byzantine: 9, Post-Roman Germanic: 8My coin gallery, My items for sale
Edited by ValiantKnight 02/07/2012 7:53 pm
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Pillar Of The Community
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Same for me, gamma and delta don't appear 
"A poor Roman plays the Goth, a rich Goth the Roman." - Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths Attributed coins in my collection so far - Roman: 179, Byzantine: 9, Post-Roman Germanic: 8My coin gallery, My items for sale
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Pillar Of The Community
United States
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Quote: I have also designed some characters to cover some of the more peculiar marks on later Roman coins Those would be handy symbols to use bobbyhelmet, but I would not know the programming necessary to get them into code. Quote: just added these: α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π ρ σ ς τ υ φ χ ψ ω - " - " Θ Λ Ξ Π Σ Φ Ψ Ω CCF recognizes a lot. Maybe it's just small glich about Delta & Gamma....?
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Pillar Of The Community
United States
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Bobby, you have no idea how much I want the chi-rho and the double-crescent characters for my records! I have looked *everywhere* on the internet for either fonts that contain them or HTML code for them. I would be in support of any effort to make these symbols usable.
There are currently 183 attributed Roman coins in my collection. Check out my collection online at: www.romanvmimperivm.com
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Pillar Of The Community
United Kingdom
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Its easily a year since I did them so forgotten exactly how the process works, about 20 in total I think. I'll try to re-educate myself tomorrow and fire some copies to people to have a play about with. Maybe its something we could add to every time someone gets something 'new' on one of their coins. Like you ACG I got sick of looking through fonts and on-line so bit the bullet and made my own. If it all works I'll start taking 'requests' 
My eBay: http://www.ebay.com/sch/bobbyhelmet/m.htmlIn 423 AD Honorius, Emperor of the West, banned the wearing of pants in Rome!
Edited by bobbyhelmet 02/08/2012 1:33 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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I just tried DVCollector's codes with a few different fonts and it didn't work after posting. Looking at the html it seems that anything in a code bracket is converted to Courier font, so that may be part of it? . . Also all of the leading ampersands are removed, but I don't know if that might be standard practice. . . #x0394; #x0394;
Edited by wheatiefan 02/07/2012 11:05 pm
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Rest in Peace
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Rest in Peace
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I found one! I found one! For HTML, that is. Embed #9767; into code and you get the chi-rho monogram. Link with all the different codes for it... http://www.fileformat.info/info/uni...27/index.htmI don't know if you can get one to work on CCF, though. ☧ ^ EDIT: apparently I can copy-paste this symbol here (but coding it on the forum won't work). If I can copy-paste it onto here you should be able to copy-paste it elsewhere, like onto MS Word. I wonder if there is a way to save it to your computer so you can use it in the program...? Like make it so it will appear with all of the other symbols you can insert into documents.
There are currently 183 attributed Roman coins in my collection. Check out my collection online at: www.romanvmimperivm.com
Edited by ancientcoinguy 02/07/2012 11:22 pm
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Pillar Of The Community
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 I see the Chi-Rho! Let me try a copy/paste: ☧ 
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Pillar Of The Community
United Kingdom
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Quote: I found one! I found one! Nice find  I've remembered how I did it, press Windows Key & 'R' (or open your 'run' bar) and enter: C:\WINDOWS\system32\eudcedit.exe Press return and the program will start - its a hidden program so not much exists on how to use it, Google 'Private Character Editor' for more info and basic 'How to...' guides. I've looked into creating a new font but not sure this is the best solution - the problem with PCE is I dont know how to export the characters for sharing and backup. I'm not the only one asking this question and there must be a solution, just not found it yet. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...68b599b31bf5If we can find the file and location it should just be a matter of over-witting it to add the characters to any PC.
My eBay: http://www.ebay.com/sch/bobbyhelmet/m.htmlIn 423 AD Honorius, Emperor of the West, banned the wearing of pants in Rome!
Edited by bobbyhelmet 02/08/2012 11:56 am
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This is a daunting problem, but if this forum could enable the Symbol font, and its character set--that might be an easy fix.
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