Closed: Using Unicode

[johnjasmines]

Can one use unicode in a visual basic application to input Latin-Extended characters in a text box? Specific characters include A with a macron above it, which is unicode 0101. I can do ascii up to 255, but the latter characters that I need I don't know how to insert because they are unicode....please help

[mark007]

I'm sure there must be an easier way but VB actually stores strings in memory as unicode so you can create a unocode string from a byte array using this function:


Function UnicodeChar(code As Long) As String
Dim b(0 To 1) As Byte
b(0) = code \ 100
b(1) = code - b(0) * 100
UnicodeChar = b
End Function


:)

[herilane]

Use ChrW instead of Chr:ME.Textbox1.Text = ChrW(&H101)

[mark007]

Good spot Helen. I knew there must be a built in fucntion but I couldn't remember it off the top of my head! It was quicker to write out a new one!

;)

[NateO]

If you're going to stack a textbox with a string, you might as well spare yourself the overhead and use the string variety of the chrw function eh.

E.g., ChrW$(257)

[NateO]

Attached is an Example.:)

[Anne Troy]

John: Was this helpful?

[johnjasmines]

NO, Dreamboat...it didn't help. I found out that VB doesn't recognize Unicode directly in the textboxes....

[mark007]

Try a richtextbox.

:)

[johnjasmines]

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