Special characters in mapfile

[Delfos, Jacob]

Tom,

Can't you just enter it using its ASCII value? On windows, hold down ALT, and press "230". I have tested it, and the class name comes out correctly with the micro sign. Not sure if you can do it the same way on Linux, though.....
For ascii codes, see: http://www.lookuptables.com/

Regards,

Jacob


» -----Original Message-----
» From: UMN MapServer Users List 
» [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of 
» Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]
» Sent: 20 September 2005 02:56
» To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
» Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Special characters in mapfile
» 
» Hi,
» 
» We have a situation where we would like to include the micro 
» sign special character as part of a CLASS NAME in a mapfile.
» 
» I initially thought that this could have be written as 
» escaped HTML entities, like µ or µ, but neither of 
» those worked in the mapfile.
» 
» Any suggestions would be appreciated.
» 
» ..Tom
» 
»  
» -----Original Message-----
» From: Houle,Marcel [Montreal] 
» Sent: Monday, 19 September, 2005 14:40
» To: Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]
» Subject: Question 
» 
» 
» Hi Tom,
» 
» Do you know how to include special characters in a CLASS 
» object within a mapfile ?
» 
» I have many maps in mapinfo polygons format that I want to 
» include in a WMS service.
» 
» Each map shows concentrations of contaminants in sediments.
» 
» The concentrations are in differents units, among them is 
» microgram/gram. The abreviation for this is µg/g
» 
» Now, in the mapfile, I use this code to represent each 
» thematic class in the polygons file :
» 
»     CLASS
»        NAME "Hg 0.075-0.140 µg/g"
»        EXPRESSION ([Upper]=0.140056)
»        COLOR 0 255 255
»        OUTLINECOLOR 0 255 255
»     END
» 
» The 'µ' symbol in the NAME parameter does not appear in the 
» resulting legend (it is replaced by something else). Is there 
» a way to use special characters like 'µ'  in the NAME 
» parameter of a CLASS object ?
» 
» See GetMap result attached
» 
» Thank
» 
» 
» 
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