No you can not. On a Windows machine you can only enter the ASCII code. So you need a conversion table first.


I did show you how to fish didn't I? OK, bears fish with their bare claws but we humans need tools.


One or the other. Or you use a conversion table or you need to know the glyph and in any case need to know if that glyph is available in that particular font at all.

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(Written between posts 21 & 22)

So I can't mathematically calculate an ASCII code by using a U+???? code. That's what I wanted to know. I thought there might be a more efficient way to add specialized symbols than copy/pasting selected glyphs from the Character Map, which is actually faster than consulting a table, and inputting the glyph using the Alt Key and number pad. I'm not so much concerned with learning the codes for individual symbols, I just wanted to know the mathematical relationship, if any, between the ASCII and Unicode designations.

I can see that knowing the code would be very important if one intends to include one of the Unicode glyphs in a font under construction.

In this case, I'm guilty of overestimating the kat's technical knowledge, and his abilities to both read and convey instruction. For that, I apologize.

@Claude: My calculator is different than yours, as shown in the graphic, (I don't have Hex/Decimal/Binary conversion). Could you tell me the exact file name of the app, and I'll try to download it from somewhere? If it's a standard Windows app, would it be installed into C:\Windows\system32, or in Program Files?

Thanks.

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koeiekat won't be answering anymore questions, because he died in 2017. http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-57251.html

claudeserieux can answer just about any font-related question, but he usually does it in French.

Everything I know about making fonts, other than what I learned myself through trial and error, was taught to me by toto@K22.