Unable to show £ sybol in table

[Graley]

$' are fine, but £'s show as invalid characters in the table control. Is this one to be fixed? If not, what other ASCII characters will the table control be unable to show?


Thx

Graley

 

[Cableguy]

Basic4ppc uses UTF-8 encoding and should be OK showing the £ symbol...
Can you post your code?

 

[agraham]

To be pedantic (yet again ) B4ppc characters are UTF16 internally and are encoded to/from either UTF8 or a specific codepage or ASCII when reading or writing to a stream.

I have a UK system and pound shows fine on a table on both device and desktop. As Cableguy says any character ought to be displayable - the proviso is that the font in use needs to include the specific glyph for the required character but most Windows standard fonts do include a pound.

Type a pound sign into a textbox and see if it shows correctly there.

 

[Graley]

Ther is no code as such. The table is just displaying a csv which contains the £ symbol. I've tried a few fonts, but each appear as either spaces, dots or squares in the table. The £'s do show in every other control though. Very strange - this is what lead me to believe it was a bug in the table control.


Thx

Graham

 

[agraham]

The problem is probably that your csv file is saved as an Ansi or Ascii file and not as a Unicode or UTF8 file. Open it in Notepad and resave it as UTF8 using the Encoding dropdown list on the Save as dialog.