Was this proposal ever implemented

Sherman Willden · Post by **Sherman Willden** » 12 Oct 2006 3:01 pm

Was this ever implemented. If so where would I find the character set?

Thanks in advance;

Sherman

Dave Boothroyd · Post by **Dave Boothroyd** » 12 Oct 2006 10:48 pm

I'd be happy just to have a proper flat symbol. We can get a sharp sign # thanks to the US convention of using it to prefix a number. Subscript lower case b is close, but a disproportionate amount of effort.
Some of the symbols we do get seem far less usethan a musical flat.
Incidentally Cubase installs a music symbol font- I would guess that other score-writing sequencers do this too.
Cheers
Dave

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 13 Oct 2006 9:31 am

Here's a test:

<table><tr><th>glyph </th><th>decimal</th><th>hex</th><th></th><th align="left">description</th></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td>♩</td><td>9833</td><td>2669</td><td> </td><td>QUARTER NOTE</td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td>♪</td><td>9834</td><td>266A</td><td> </td><td>EIGHTH NOTE</td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td>♫</td><td>9835</td><td>266B</td><td> </td><td>BEAMED EIGHTH NOTES</td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td>♬</td><td>9836</td><td>266C</td><td> </td><td>BEAMED SIXTEENTH NOTES</td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td>♭</td><td>9837</td><td>266D</td><td> </td><td>MUSIC FLAT SIGN</td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td>♮</td><td>9838</td><td>266E</td><td> </td><td>MUSIC NATURAL SIGN</td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td>♯</td><td>9839</td><td>266F</td><td> </td><td>MUSIC SHARP SIGN</td></tr> </table>

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b0b · Post by **b0b** » 13 Oct 2006 9:35 am

If you can see the musical symbols in the test above, then the font on your computer is supporting the Unicode music symbols.

I can see them. I'm running Windows XP Pro with Microsoft's standard font set.

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 13 Oct 2006 9:42 am

♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ♭ ♮ ♯ 

To do these in HTML (or in a Forum message), you enter &# plus the decimal number of the glyph plus a semicolon ;

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Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 13 Oct 2006 9:48 am

♫

In both of your posts I can read the 8th, beamed eigth and beamed sixteenth notes but the other four read as question marks. Wazzat mean?

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 13 Oct 2006 9:53 am

It means that your font doesn't include those characters. I think that the Forum is set to use the Verdana font by default. Maybe you can get a newer version of Verdana from Microsoft's web site.

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 13 Oct 2006 2:02 pm

I think I have some music staff and notes fonts saved somewhere on one of my computers. If I find them I'll upload them to my server and post a link so y'all can download them.

Wiz

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 13 Oct 2006 2:22 pm

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf

You'll need Acrobat Reader to view this document of Unicode music note text characters.

Wiz

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 13 Oct 2006 3:16 pm

The hex number 1D100 is 119040 decimal. Here's another test:

𝄀 𝄁 𝄂 𝄃 𝄄 𝄅 𝄆 𝄇 𝄈 𝄉

𝄊 𝄋 𝄌 𝄍 𝄎 𝄏 𝄐 𝄑 𝄒 𝄓

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b0b · Post by **b0b** » 13 Oct 2006 3:17 pm

That one didn't work too well...

Sherman Willden · Post by **Sherman Willden** » 13 Oct 2006 4:42 pm

Ok, What am I missing? I went to www.unicode.org and found a zip file that I assumed had the character files in them. All I got were several .txt and .html files. Where are the character files themselves?

Don't the files have to exist in the control panel -> fonts directory?

Thank you;

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Dave Boothroyd · Post by **Dave Boothroyd** » 15 Oct 2006 10:51 pm

B0b,
With the exception of the quaver, (eighth note) all your symbols are little squares on my PC.
Cheers
Dave