On Windows systems there is a registry entry that will enable the use of hexadecimal input for unicode characters. It allows you to hold down the Alt key, enter + and two to four hex digits. In QSPICE it works for 2 hex digits e.g.Alt+B0 for the degree symbol or Alt+A7 for the section symbol. When I try Alt+3A9 for the capital Omega (Ohms), I get the copyright symbol which is curiously enough 0xA9, so the upper byte of the unicode character got masked off. Would it be a problem to allow 16-bit characters in Qspice?
IMHO - this may not be a bug, it would just be nice to have.
In other, past, work, I used UNICODE for CAD so I could render all Asian languages, but it turned out they didn’t really care. In fact, UNICODE was generally poorly received. For example, Helmut really didn’t like it all all.
So I wanted to stick to ASCII, or at least eight bit clean ASCII. I used Windows-1252(Windows-1252 - Wikipedia) which did everything I needed:
- Lower case Greek Mu for micro
- Enough extra letters for all the foreseeable new SPICE devices I would likely write.
- Allowed western European languages to look normal with the extended vowels as they do expect.
- Simplifies writing new parsers for manipulating netlists, CAD, and waveform header files by 3rd parties.
–Mike
Mike,
That is an entirely reasonable position to take. That is why I said I was not certain it was a bug. If Alt+3A9 had come back with something besides the copyright symbol ©, then I would have been less sure. I love being on the bleeding edge, this is some candy store.
BRUCE108