[Solved] Exclusive-or character

[Hagar Delest]

How do I get an exclusive-or operator in the formula editor? It is a circle with a plus sign inside.

[RusselB]

Welcome to the Forums.
I think I found the character you are looking for.
To save you from having to do the search, the code to be entered is %Ux2295
I found it by calling up the Catalog, then switching to Special, clicking Edit, then going through all of the characters from the start in the dialog until I found the one that matched your description.
There may be others, I stopped when I found one that I thought looked close.

[contestcen]

Thank you. I must be doing this wrong. I clicked "Insert" then "Special characters." This showed a pane of various characters, the first of many. Then I scrolled down to the last pane which was titled "Special." (I assume this is what you meant by "Switching to Special.") This showed me a pane of Arabic characters. There were no math symbols. When I scrolled up I just found other alphabets. I tried searching for "Catalog" in Help, but it wasn't there. I tried clicking "Edit" but nothing happened. How can I enter the UTF code Ux2295 and get the corresponding character into my text? I tried copying the XOR symbol from a PDF, but that gave me gibberish.

[Zizi64]

Try the LibreOffice. The Math application contains the XOR sign. (The LO has more functions generally compared to the AOO)

[contestcen]

I managed to get the character I wanted. I realized that Ux2295 was equivalent to &#8853. I inserted this code into an HTML document, displayed it in a browser, and then copied that character into my Open Office document. It worked. Thanks to both responders.

[Zizi64]

If you want often use these special characters:

You can set it as an user defined item of the Autocorrect option in the applications Writer and Calc.

Or you can write a macro to insert such special characters.

[MrProgrammer]

Hi, and welcome to the forum.

How do I get an exclusive-or operator in the formula editor? It is a circle with a plus sign inside.

Use the oplus operator.

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[contestcen]

I tried it. It gave me a pale box outline with an inverted question mark inside.

[Zizi64]

I tried it. It gave me a pale box outline with an inverted question mark inside.

It works for me in my AOO 4.1.5 portable version. Insert operands before and after the sign.

If it will not work anyway, then (maybe) it is a font related problem. Check the used fonts.

[Lupp]

Are you sure that an appropriate version of the font opens___.ttf is accessible? My AOO 4.1.5 Portable came with OpenSymbol v 102.10 (same as recent LibO).

BTW: Is there now a generally accepted agreement to use the 'oplus' as the standard symbol for the binary operator "exclusive or, XOR"? Well, there is a kind of tradition to use "+" for "OR" in Boolean Algebra despite the obvious disadvantages. Outside of that field I never did, and inside there wasn't much need of the XOR operation. To use the "circled plus" generally might not be the best choice.

===Amendment 2018-09-29 11:15 CEST===
The unicode has assigned the code point U+22BB to XOR. It should look like ⊻ . That's a good choice (accentuated OR).