[TYPO3] Using NDASH and MDASH in GIFBUILDER text

[JoH]

> 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?

Are you sure the font file "ARIALN.TTF" contains a character for ndash or
mdash?

Joey

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