Strange star character; Was Four star movies?

To me, Gary's post was very interesting, but left me with many
questions. The primary one is: How do you find a star character and how
do you type one?

As indicated above, I tried to find how star characters were put into a
Zap2it. I had given up. Today, I got an advertising email that included
a star.

"Air_$399 Lenovo"

On Mail, the star showed up. On my paste into my newsreader, the star
was replaced by the underline.

I was able to copy the segment above from Mail to Microsoft Word and
Excel. I tried to change the font in Word to see if somehow different
fonts had different symbols for ASCII95, the underline. Trying to format
the star in Word with the Format menu, Word always went to the Menlo
Regular font. Using the Font menu, I could ostensibly change the entire
string. But if I selected the star by itself, it always was back to
Menlo Regular. I just changed the string to Courier New. but the star
did not.

In Excel, I pasted the string into a cell. The MID function allowed me
to select the star all by itself for the inside a cell. The CODE
function gave 95 for its ASCII code. Using CHAR(95), however, gave me
the underline.

Even when I went to the cell containing the star, changing the font to
Courier New did not change the star.

This is mighty strange. Who has an explanation?

--

Sam

Conservatives are against Darwinism but for natural selection.
Liberals are for Darwinism but totally against any selection.

 

Paste it into TextEdit and save as UTF-16

Then view the hax digits for the star with

od -xc filename

Go back to TextEdit and use Unicode Hex Input to verify that you can
create the star with the same hex digits.

 

Wes Groleau:

Or open Character Viewer, select "Bullets/Stars" or "Pictographs" and
drag the star of your choice into your document.

 

That would be best if he just needed a star. But I think he wanted to
write a script that looked for a particular character.

 

That indeed was the intent of my query.

Although I do not expect to spend much more time on the subject (There
are other interesting things to do.) It shows that finding, cutting and
pasting, etc, is not all that simple to do.

--

Sam

Conservatives are against Darwinism but for natural selection.
Liberals are for Darwinism but totally against any selection.