Arrows and stars in text?

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Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2005

Just down the road.

Mo/

20 May 2006 at 19:01 - 1
In Shing Jea English District today, I saw someone displaying text containing arrows - in HA I have seen stars and squares. Anyone know how it is done? I asked the player in question and the only response I got was "It's a secret."

Below is an example of what I mean:



It's really getting on my nerves.

Synxernal

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

20 May 2006 at 19:10 - 2
Character Map application.

Matsumi

Matsumi

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2006

20 May 2006 at 19:13 - 3
totally annoying, or when they have the big white lines by things

Kakumei

Kakumei

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2005

Grind is subjective

learn this please

20 May 2006 at 19:18 - 4
It's a secret.

Basically the fewer people that know how to do this the better. It's incredibly annoying.

Fyre Brand

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

Shadowlight Order [SoR]

20 May 2006 at 19:25 - 5
It's not really a secret, but it's still annoying. Expanding on Synxernal:

1. Open the Character Map application. Or alternately if you have an ascii chart for a font set you can open a text editor that accepts alt-number input and write your string in there.

2. Copy and Paste: Ctrl-C from the Character Map or text editor and Ctrl-V into your Guild Wars chat window.

It's as simple as that. When you look at the Character Map for a font set you will see odd non-roman characters. These are what the people are putting in the chat window. Not all font sets work in Guild Wars, mostly just the base fonts.

Please use them sparingly (or not at all) as it was pointed out it can be pretty annoying. You can get a decent effect just by using ==== ***** and the standard shift characters and it's much less irritating to someone trying to watch the trade screen zoom by.

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Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2005

Just down the road.

Mo/

20 May 2006 at 20:15 - 6
Right - Thanks a lot for your replies. You won't find me using them to advertise though