[TYPO3] Using NDASH and MDASH in GIFBUILDER text

[Joerg Wagner - DigiLog multimedia]

Hi all,

I just dropped onto a limitation in GIFBUILDER text:
There seems to be no way to render an ndash or mdash character.

I tried all ways of encoding:
      text = XXX - – – – YYY
and
      text = XXX - — — — YYY
 but all I get is some placeholder character instead of the dash.

Any idea how this can be done?
TS code block below.

Thanks!
--
Jörg Wagner
DigiLog multimedia


 file = GIFBUILDER
 file {
  XY = [10.w],30
  10 = TEXT
  10 {
      text = XXX - – – – YYY
      doNotStripHTML = 1
      fontColor = #000000
      fontFile =  fileadmin/fonts/ARIALN.TTF
      offset = 0,26
      fontSize = 26
   }
 }