On Mar 5, 2004, at 8:03 PM, Tim Bates wrote:
> Phil Tomson wrote:
>> But I didn't find them in there... Which makes me wonder if it's even
>> possible to output them this way.  I know that to get them in HTML you
>> use ® and ™
>
> `puts 174.chr` gives me a little (R) symbol that's rather difficult to 
> read, and `puts 153.chr` gives me a dotted square - so I guess it 
> depends on what terminal font you're using. I assume you're wanting to 
> do this in a terminal window? The answer probably is that there's no 
> guaranteed portable way to do it except for "(R)" and "(TM)".

Vaguely related (and important for everyone to read, IMO):

"The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively 
Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)"
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

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