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RE: Naval Search Arcs Broken?
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2016 1:51 am
by BBfanboy
ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
Within 4 hexes, you'll get good results. I think it's outside of 4 hexes where it starts to break down, and people have said that at 15+ it's really a crapshoot. I've detected things that far out, but it must just be luck at that point because the 10' arc is so wide.
Loka - you can get the º symbol by holding down the ALT key and typing 167. When you release the ALT key it will appear.
It depends on what text editor/web browser you are using, therefore I just always use the apostrophe [:)].
The objection to that is that it is also used to denote "feet" (usually in altitude). Communication is so confusing ....
RE: Naval Search Arcs Broken?
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2016 3:37 am
by witpqs
ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
ORIGINAL: szmike
ORIGINAL: witpqs
176 gives °. 167 gives º.
176 gives ░ 167 gives ž
ooops
It depends on the font set that you are using. If you are not using the US English keyboard setting, you will have a different font which means a different character set.
Windows used to allow you to see the character set by going to the "Character Map" item in one of the properties menus. I have not been able to find it in recent versions of Windows but I know I could create one by starting a document and then going through the numbers 1 to 256 using the ALT key to print the character in the document. Somewhere in your character set you will have a º symbol - in with all the mathematics and scientific symbols most likely.
When I typed the two characters in the Matrix editor window, 167 gave a degree sign with a small horizontal line underneath it. When I look at it on the web page, it's just the degree sign (same as 176). Just as you say, stupid fonts!