Yup, the "use encoding cp1252';" works in Windows, and I get the n-dash I was after. But as tachyon points out below it's not portable, so no dice in Linux. Since this app gets ported to Linux later, I'll either have to be happy with the (already boldface) minus sign, or throw in some OS detection so the Windows port, at least, will look the way I want it to. | [reply] |