It is supposed to be a solid downwards pointing arrow  (as in the ones used
in outlook express).  The font may need to be set to arial to get the
correct result.  Although after testing your code on my machine I get a ?
mas well.  The character map shows the character as U+25BC which I assume
means 25BC Hex and converts to 9660 decimal.


Robert Martin
Software Engineer
Wild Software Ltd
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From: "Nello Sestini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: [DUG]: Unicode


> > I would like to display a unicode character in a TLabel.  I tried
> > Label.Caption := WideStrToString(#9660) but I get a '?' instead of
> > the character I am after.  Ideas?
>
>    procedure TForm1.Button3Click(Sender: TObject);
>    const w:widestring = #9660;
>    begin
>      label1.caption:='abc'+w+'def';
>    end;
>
> When I do this and display the caption using MSSansSerif
> I get a heavy dot below the baseline.   What is #9660 supposed
> to convert to?
>
> (If I try this with #9662 or #9663 i get "?"s - i.e. they don't
> have single byte equivalents)
>
> -ns
>
>
>
>
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