Windings characters appear as Arial characters

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Thierry

I have received a PowerPoint document containing Windings characters
"<-" and "->" (upload www.tachons.com/specialfont.ppt).
I am trying to (programmatically) export the text contained in the
document.
Problem is that those characters appear as Arial characters in the PPT
(if I select them in PPT, it show as Arial), but when I try to get the
code of those characters, I get a very large number because "F0" is
added in front of the code.
For instance, "hand" symbol in Windings is character 0046h, but if I
get this embedded into Arial, PowerPoint will report F046h. So I know
this is "special" character, I know I have to "delete" "F" to get the
right code, but I have found no way to understand in which font I had
to look (why Windings and not Webdings for instance) ?
Can anybody help ?
Thanks
 
I have received a PowerPoint document containing Windings characters
"<-" and "->" (upload www.tachons.com/specialfont.ppt).
I am trying to (programmatically) export the text contained in the
document.
Problem is that those characters appear as Arial characters in the PPT
(if I select them in PPT, it show as Arial), but when I try to get the
code of those characters, I get a very large number because "F0" is
added in front of the code.
For instance, "hand" symbol in Windings is character 0046h, but if I
get this embedded into Arial, PowerPoint will report F046h. So I know
this is "special" character, I know I have to "delete" "F" to get the
right code, but I have found no way to understand in which font I had
to look (why Windings and not Webdings for instance) ?
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These are special characters that PowerPoint inserts when you type smiley faces
like :-) or arrows like ==>

See Tools, Autocorrect options for other examples.

Why Wingdings? Probably because PowerPoint knows that the special characters
it's looking for are part of the font. Does it ever use a different font? I
don't know.


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