Vista Tutorial - Alpha-Sign

Hello there

I have a problem with special characters. I need to print the alpha and beta sign within a text. Is there a possibility to do this?
It doesn't work with chr() or chrw().

Thanks for help in advance!

Regards,

Luzia

"Luzia Baumgartner" <nospam@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%234O$stw%23JHA.5068@xxxxxxTo display any particular character, you need at least two thing: a font
that has a character that is what you want, and the code point (number you
would put in Chr() or ChrW() ) to display that character.

You should have mentioned what values you put in your chr() or chrw() rather
than saying only "It doesn't work with chr() or chrw()." The characters
displayed by Chr()/ChrW() with values less than 256 are dependent on your
computer's Locale; what works in one locale might display something entirely
different in another locale. There is info about Locale and changing it for
the duration of your script, in the scripting help file, script56.chm, which
is probably installed on your computer.

You also didn't mention how you are trying to display the character, like in
a message box or in an IE window. I can't remember the procedure to change
the font for message boxes, but default installations of WXP uses a font
with a fairy wide range of Unicode characters. Knowing your OS would also
help with giving you a useful response.

There is a tool built into Windows for displaying all the characters
available in the various installed fonts. I can't remember the name of this
program, but perhaps your computer's help & support can give you that info.

You probably need a Unicode code point; see www.unicode.org for all things
Unicode. If you haven't been there before, be sure to look at the topics
displayed when your cursor hovers over 'New to Unicode' and 'General
Information' in the upper left corner.

-Paul Randall

Luzia Baumgartner wrote:Hi Luzia,

You can explore the fonts on your machine using the "Character Map"
utility. (On my system, start menu => Programs => Accessories =>
System Tools => Character Map.

Again, on my system, the truetype font called "Symbol" has an
alpha and beta character, which is produced from the ascii
characters a and b (you get upper case alpha and beta for
upper case A and B, and correspondingly lower case alpha
and beta for lower case a and b).

If you search around, you may find other fonts with alpha and
beta. Greek fonts, for example. Or math fonts (as mathematicians
love to use Greek characters).

This is begging a perhaps more critical question -- how are
you going to change the font. And for that, you need some
utility which allows you to select a font. Most editors
allow for this: notepad on the low end, and msWD on the
high end.

cheers, jw
____________________________________________________________

You got questions? WE GOT ANSWERS!!! ..(but, no guarantee
the answers will be applicable to the questions)

fwiw, if you go looking through fonts for the alpha and beta
characters, you will come across something that "looks like"
a beta character, but with no adjacent alpha. What is that?

It so happens that is the character for the German "Scharfe-ess".
Note that it appears amongst the accented characters not normally
used in (American) English. The "Scharfe-ess" is used in German
(sometimes) in place of a double-s. For example, Fuss (foot)
becomes "Fuß", or Wasser (water) becomes Waßer. (Those characters
look correct on my screen, but not sure they will come through the
ng posting properly). If not, the character I am referring to
is (ansi?) 223.

I am told by German-speakers that the "Scharfe-ess" sounds
(slightly?) different from a double-s, when spoken. But I can't
hear the difference. But that's getting off the subject.

cheers, jw

[OFF TOPIC]
mr_unreliable schrieb:
[...]Wasser is/stays "Wasser" (rule of thumb: after short vowel: ss)
[...]see:
http://czyborra.com/charsets/codepages.htmlDiscard the first and rely on the second sentence.I agree.

Hi Paul

Sorry for not being more accurate in describing my problem.

We found out the reason why it doesn't work: the version of the tool we are using with this VBScript is too old to handle Unicode...

Regards

Luzia


"Paul Randall" <paulr901@xxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:e$Mkw4x%23JHA.4376@xxxxxx