A little more...

convert([3],bytes) produces an empty square box where it should produce the ♥ symbol.

Any reason as to why not?

This has been an issue on a few occassions when importing from other languages as well.  Is it more than just a font issue?

If printing in black and white add symbol= circle for one and symbol=diamond for the other.

@John Fredsted :hmm... I am still unable to replicate.  I wonder if it's an issue native to the Windows 8? 7? or something (I'm using XP).  Maybe a firewall issue?  I wonder what configuration ANANDMUNAGALA is using .. that could narrow the problem down if it's not related Maple.

You mention even simple worksheets cause it to freeze.  I have not been able to replicate your situation. 

It would help if you could upload a simple worksheet that you experience the issue in.  Alternately you mention you sometimes mistype the combination.  Is it possible some other combination of letters?

Perhaps to turn this post into something more constructive, there is someone with time and interest to create a Maple procedure that would utilize google translate?

End key works in M12 and the tab key outside of code edit regions doesn't appear useable.

Perhaps with M18 on the horizon .. someone should start the M18 wish list, being almost Christmas time.

As a workaround crtl-c and crtl-v a few spaces.  Although it won't help in the conversion of documents already created with TAB, it would help in the creation of new documents.  Outside of that, the hope is for it to be included in the next version, or even better, an update.

By the way, on a seperate topic did you happen to check out the experimental continually updated physics package?

I wanted to check to see if the longer side had a larger area so I quickly drew it up in AutoCAD and calculated the area.  The calculated area is 8.6667

It is fine in Classic M17.  M12 is okay as well (hourglass cursor for a second but works fine).

@Carl Love I forgot to include the specs - Maple 17.00 Standard GUI on Win XP 32.  So it's either XP or a glitch in the earlier 17 release.  I'll have to upgrade later and confirm.  Nothing major, just something I came across and thought I'd mention it. 

@lemilinm 

As of today, and of course for sheer entertainment purposes only.  Interestingly Sage has an equal number of users to Maple both of which are almost half of Mathematica, however the number of votes is a mere fraction of the actual number using them. 

That sort of sounds like an autocorrelation or spearman test.

@pagan It is a bit shocking to see how such a simple Mobius app could win?  But after all it's based on votes from users.  Is it possible the voting system was cheated? 

By the way, nice to see you back in Mapleprimes.  I thought you had fled to Mathematica (see here http://mapleprimes.com/posts/151056-Why-Did-You-Choose-Maple

@Preben Alsholm

Unfortunately in the help pages on procedure parameter modifiers

A parameter using either form of evaln may not appear after any parameter using the seq modifier.

Maybe a proc within a proc would work here?

In this case a simple combine expand works.  If we had say some function of cos(x) and wanted to express in terms of powers of sin(x) then we would have to use some other method.