inserting special character 'vector angle' symbol

> I need to display electrical phasors (which are complex numbers in polar
> notation). This requires a special 'vector angle' symbol as shown
> http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_2/chpt_2/5.html.
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> What are my options for displaying such a symbol?
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> ∠
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> My searching only turned up 'Character characterTable'
> I wondered if I can replace one of those bitmap characters with my own.
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> I also found an online character set converter
> http://kanjidict.stc.cx/recode.php
> which converted from the character from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 "∠"
> but that result doesn't mean a lot to me.
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> Hints would be greatly appreciated.
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> cheers -ben
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> Ben Coman wrote
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>> What are my options for displaying such a symbol?
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>> ∠
>>    
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> Check the "Use FreeType..." Checkbox in the Settings Browser, then select a
> Font that includes this Symbol. On my Mac i just used Menlo that comes with
> the System. See attached screenshot:
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> <http://forum.world.st/file/n4658623/angle.png>
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> Paul,
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> It is for displaying from in-image for a desktop GUI.  I assumed I did
> have a capable font installed (I could copy the ANGLE character from a
> web page into OpenOffice) but I could determine which font nor see the
> character in any of the many font tables I reviewed.   Most fonts were
> missing the U+2220 character.
>
> Helene,
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> It helped a lot seeing the U+2220 code in your screen snapshot.  At
> least I could confirm that the fonts I was looking at not contain it
> (the Menlo font is not on Windows 7).  Eventually google brought me to
> [1] & [2] from which choosing the system font as DejaVu allowed the
> following script to display the ANGLE character.
> ----
> char := Character value: 16r2220.
> wideString := String with: char.
> wideString inspect.
> ----
> [1] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2220/index.htm
> [2] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2220/fontsupport.htm
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> thanks for your time,
> cheers -ben
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> Paul DeBruicker wrote:
>> Do you have a font on your computer or better yet in Pharo that can
>> display it?  Where do you want to display it (web, image, etc) ?
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> Helene Bilbo wrote:
>> Ben Coman wrote
>>  
>>> What are my options for displaying such a symbol?
>>>
>>> ∠
>>>    
>>
>> Check the "Use FreeType..." Checkbox in the Settings Browser, then
>> select a
>> Font that includes this Symbol. On my Mac i just used Menlo that
>> comes with
>> the System. See attached screenshot:
>>
>> <http://forum.world.st/file/n4658623/angle.png>
>>
>>
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>> View this message in context:
>> http://forum.world.st/inserting-special-character-vector-angle-symbol-tp4658619p4658623.html 
>>
>> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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