Find Alt 171 and Alt 172

[ericscroggins]

Hi, this seems to be a basic thing but I can't find a solution. I simply need to find where on the glyph grid Alt 171 and Alt 172 are. Explanation: I have a programme which requires me to map 'one half' and 'one quarter' symbols to these positions - but there seems to be no indication of where they can be found. Please help.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Alt 171 types ½ and Alt 172 types ¼. These are ASCII codes, but the glyphs are mapped to codepoints $BD (hex) and $BC (hex) respectively.

If you're more accustomed to decimal codes, that's 189 and 188 respectively. They can also be typed with Alt 0189 and Alt 0188 respectively, which are the ANSI codes.

These are the standard Unicode codepoints for the fractions, and all fonts that you're likely to have nowadays will be encoded in this way.

[ericscroggins]

Hi Bhikkhu, thanks very much for your reply. The glyphs you mention were not present in my font, so I've added them. Hopefully I'll be able to proceed - cheers from Ian