[TYPO3] Using NDASH and MDASH in GIFBUILDER text

[Joerg Wagner]

Hi Joey,

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

yes, that was the first thing I checked. This is a standard WinXP font file. 
It contains these dashes at the right UTF encoding positions and they also 
work nicely if used as HTML entities in normal body text with "font-face: 
Arial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;" (which is ARIALN.TTF on 
WinXP).
--
Jörg Wagner
DigiLog multimedia


"JoH" <info at cybercraft.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1144063354.24200.typo3-english at lists.netfielders.de...
>> 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 - &ndash; &#x2013; &#8211; YYY
>> and
>>       text = XXX - &mdash; &#x2014; &#8212; 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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