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Special Characters
XPress Tags lets you specify character encoding and insert and manipulate
special characters such as discretionary hyphens and non-breaking spaces.
Encoding
One of the following three extended character set indicators is automatically
placed at the top of an XPress Tags file you create using the Save Text
command (File menu).
Unicode (UTF-16): <e8> ●
Unicode (UTF-8): <e9> ●
Mac Roman (x-mac-roman): <e0> ●
Windows Latin (windows–1252): <e1> ●
Western (iso–8859–1): <e2> ●
Japanese Win (windows–932–2000): <e3> ●
Japanese Mac (x-mac-japanese): <e21> ●
Korean Windows (MS CodePage 949): <e19> ●
Korean Mac (KSC5601): <e20> ●
Traditional Chinese (BIG5): <e6> ●
Simplified Chinese (GB2312): <e7> ●
Escape characters
To use as text certain characters that XPress Tags would otherwise consider as
part of specific codes, use these special characters.
@: <\@> ●
<: <\<> ●
\: <\\> ●
Other special characters
Some special characters have their own XPress Tags codes. Use the following
codes to define these characters.