At 9:46 PM -0600 1/2/06, Dixon, Tom wrote:
You do it in code like this:
StaticText1.Text = "some special characters: " + Chr(169) + Chr(174) +
Chr(153)
Ow! No, you don't. The global Chr() function is defined for values
0 through 127 *only*. The above code is incorrect, ill-advised,
improper, and just plain a Bad Idea. Please don't use it, nor advise
others to use it.
To answer the original question... ASCII values range from 0 through
127. Anything else is not an ASCII value, but something else.
Non-ASCII characters have different code points in different
encodings. If you're going to specify a non-ASCII character by its
code point, then you must have some encoding in mind. Don't expect
REALbasic to read your mind, though; be explicit.
For example, if it's the Windows-Latin-1 encoding that you have in
mind, when you hold the belief that 153 is the Trademark symbol (I
have no idea whether this is the case, but just suppose it for the
sake of this example), then you should use
Encodings.WindowsLatin1.Chr(153). Do NOT use just Chr(153), since
153 is not in the defined range for Chr, and if you are unlucky the
result will happen to be what you expected on your machine, only to
generate the wrong result on some other machine.
Best,
- Joe
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Joseph J. Strout
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