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have you tried a leading 0?  Many computer systems interpret numbers with a leading 0 as octal.  Also... why not just use hex?
 
have you tried a leading 0?  Many computer systems interpret numbers with a leading 0 as octal.  Also... why not just use hex?
 
[[User:Doran|Doran]] ([[User talk:Doran|talk]]) 18:16, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
 
[[User:Doran|Doran]] ([[User talk:Doran|talk]]) 18:16, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
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:What do you think [https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/blob/NetHack-3.6/dat/symbols this] does?  Nonetheless it's not for me. [[User:Lysdexia|Lysdexia]] ([[User talk:Lysdexia|talk]]) 14:29, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

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(First, the create topic button takes me to a invalid action/URL page where the create tab had no Forum: mainspace in it, so I had to enter the mainspace into the topic field then click the button.)

Two pages claim the symset can take octal in the form \nnn but the symbol file uses this format for decimal. Lysdexia (talk) 04:54, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

have you tried a leading 0? Many computer systems interpret numbers with a leading 0 as octal. Also... why not just use hex? Doran (talk) 18:16, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

What do you think this does? Nonetheless it's not for me. Lysdexia (talk) 14:29, 11 November 2019 (UTC)