[Framers] Why do my ohm symbols keep turning into capital O?

[Lin Sims]

Hmmm. ASCII was the wrong word. Apparently, I wanted ANSI. Sorry about the
confusion. Alt+234 (not 0234) on the numeric keypad is the correct shortcut
in both FrameMaker and other Windows programs for inserting the ohm
character into text. I've used the same key sequence in Word, and
PowerPoint. Interestingly, while it doesn't work in Notetab Lite, it does
work in Notepad++. Go figure.

Yes, I know that the ohm symbol is a capital omega. I happen to work in the
circuit design industry, so ohms are rather on my mind. :)

Even more interestingly, reinstalling the Myriad/Myriad Pro font set seems
to have resolved the issue. I hate not knowing why something's gone wrong,
but as long as it is now going correctly, I'll refrain from looking the
gift horse in the mouth. Too many other things to handle!

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 5:08 PM, shuttie27 <shuttie27 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Lin. A few thoughts that may go some of the way to clearing up the
> mystery. Forgive me if these are already familiar to you.1. What you call
> the ohm symbol is actually the Greek capital omega.2. Adobe Myriad Pro does
> indeed include a glyph for this as well as other Greek capitals.3. However,
> ASCII 0234 is not a capital omega. In fact the ASCII table contains no
> Greek letters at all. ASCII 0234 is an e with a circumflex accent.4. The
> Unicode code for capital omega is, as Rob said, U3A9.
> All these being so, I would try inserting the correct code using the
> character palette and see what happens then.
> Seems to me the real mystery is why Alt 0234 inserts an omega in the first
> place!
> Hope this helps somewhat.
> Roger
>
>
> Sent from my tablet.
> -------- Original message --------From: Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com>
> Date: 28/04/2017  16:20  (GMT+00:00) To: Frame Users <
> framers at lists.frameusers.com> Subject: [Framers] Why do my ohm symbols
> keep turning into capital O?
> I use the Alt+234 key sequence to insert Ω into my documents. Why do they
> keep turning into capital O?
>
> FrameMaker 12
> Windows 7
> Font: Myriad Pro
>
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> Lin Sims
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