Tom,
No harm done...I guess my main concern is that my Mac experience is still
growing and most of my concerns are about cross compiles for the Mac. Like
system fonts on the Mac. Will they handle all the trademark, registered and
copyright symbols on a default Mac OS? If not, if this is my only concern,
what would be the best font that all Mac users would be happy to see?
Thanks,
Dave Bert
From: "Dixon, Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Getting Started <[email protected]>
To: "Getting Started" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Ascii code question
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 22:18:31 -0600
Ouch! I feel sufficiently admonished! Well I learn something new every
day. This still leaves the problem of using a font that does not contain
the character code you are seeking. Encodings.WindowsLatin1.Chr(153)
still does not produce the Trademark Symbol using the default System
font on Windows.
Tom
>
> 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
>
> --
>
> Joseph J. Strout
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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