OK, now that I know I will not get in trouble here we go… I am writing a snippet of code to replace UNIX special characters with there HTML ASCII values (i.e. a $ becomes $). Simple enough right? Well there is a wrapper program which interfaces with a GUI front end. This wrapper script parses the output of the Perl script for conflicting codes ($ is also the company logo in the custom typeface) and generates the vector math to render the character. So this:

$line =~ s/\$/\&\#36\;/g;
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would display "&" then the company logo instead of the $ character.

This means that before I can output the translated ASCII codes I have to run a dynamic function sent by the wrapper program to replace the ASCII code with a flag and the vector math. This allows the wrapper program to create an "image" of the letter character and put it seamlessly into the HTML. I know this is a very round about way to do it. However, my bosses have handed down the decision and I have little say.

Thank you!

Edited 2001-12-20 by dvergin to show $