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Authored by: _merlin on Jun 09, '01 02:27:56AM

The strange characters representing the F1 to F16 are actually Mac Roman renditions of UTF-8 character sequences. When you copy this property list into your text editor, make sure you save the file using the Mac OS Roman encoding. If you don't, it won't work. All property lists are in UTF-8 format, however, no font I have seen will render the sequences representing the F keys. There is also no way to type them. So copy the property list from here, paste it into a text editor, preferably BBEdit or TextEdit (a command-line editor probably won't work), then save it as plain text in Mac Roman format. Anything else won't work.

Vasantha Crabb



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