st: Re: Greek characters

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

On Jul 22, 2004, at 2:33 AM, Tom wrote:

> Thanks, Mark.
> I'll follow your advice and I'll install these fonts and change STATA
> display fonts.
> To be honest in my Mac instead of the greek alphabet I got empty
> "boxes";
> based on what you post, I think I can manage it, it's a font issue.
>
> Dimitris,
> Thanks for raising the point.
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
What works on a Mac will not work the same way on Windows/Linux/Unix 
(despite the fact that Mac OS X is Unix, the character set is not ISO 
8859-1 (Latin-1)).

I recently dealt wit this issue in getting a chap's accented name to 
appear correctly, on output and in a graph title, irrespective of the 
OS. Here is a fragment of code (ssc type clemao1.ado) which does that:

        local ne = char(241)+char(233)
        if "$S_OS" == "MacOSX" {
                local ne = char(150)+char(142)
                }
        di in gr _n "Clemente-Monta`ne's-Reyes unit-root...

  graph combine ddv mint, col(1) ti("Clemente-Monta`ne's-Reyes single 
AO test...

The name is M-o-n-t-a-n tilde-e acute-s.

Kit

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