Re: Omega character

["Freddie Unpenstein" <fredderic excite com>]

> You can always write UTF-8 characters expanded with escapes
> "\xe2\x84\xa6" (this is Ohm sign which is different from capital
> Omega "\xce\xa9", BTW) if you don't want to use UTF-8 directly,
> which is no problem nowadays.

One trick I use to avoid ending up with a long illegible string of ugly \xXX's, is to #define them to 
readable names.

#define OHM "\xe2\x84\xa6"
#define OMEGA "\xce\xa9"
gchar *normal = "The \xce\xa9 and \xe2\x84\xa6 signs DO differ.";
gchar *defines = "The "OMEGA" and "OHM" signs DO differ.";

The two strings compile to the exact same binary string.  It looks a little odd, but not nearly as odd as the 
alternative...  And you can actually read it this way!  :)

Oh, if you write a bunch of OHM and OMEGA signs one after the other, you can see a subtle differences the 
characters.


It would be good to know how to tell if a given character is actually defined or not, but hopefully this 
little tip will help.


Fredderic

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