Re: Character Problem

From:
"AliR" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Tue, 2 May 2006 13:59:11 -0500
Message-ID:
<4457ac2b$0$14926$a8266bb1@reader.corenews.com>
G is an asci character that is the same in most character fonts (0xF7).

AliR.

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
news:po5f52hl5vtemqnk6adjfpd0rrvtarqpma@4ax.com...

When you write G it really has no meaning. No more than "A" has meaning.

The only reason

code 0x41 displays as "A" is that all fonts that support the Latin

alphabet have the glyph

of two diagonal lines with a vertex at the top of the character cell and a

horizontal bar

about halfway down that connects the two lines. So the question really

can't be answered

unless the font being used is known, and you haven't specified that. In

addition, you

have shown the string as _T("") which suggests the possibility that you

have a Unicode

app. You have not said how you read it back, or how you are displaying

it. You will need

to supply all this information before we can really give an answer.
joe

On Mon, 1 May 2006 16:40:13 -0500, "AliR" <AliR@online.nospam> wrote:

Hi Everyone,

Here is another thing that I can't figure out.

I am writing a text to a file
File.WriteString(_T("2 x 3 = 6 3 x 2 = 6 6 G 2 = 3 6 G 3 =
2.\n"));

But when I read it back I get

2 x 3 = 6 3 x 2 = 6 6 2 = 3 6? 3 = 2

I am not sure why the G (character 0xF7) is not showing up correctly?

The funny thing is that the first one doesn't even show up, and the

second

one shows up as a block.

Any solution to this?

Ali


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