Re: Re: FromCharacterCode
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- Subject: [mg106649] Re: [mg106900] Re: FromCharacterCode
- From: Jason Ledbetter <jasonbrent at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:42:54 -0500 (EST)
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One small addition here.. this can also happen if there isn't an equivalent character in your code page. The character conversion stuff in windows is fairly odd and sometimes you can't even get a proper display even if you have a font that supports the character if the code page isn't both installed/enabled on windows -and- windows is booted with that code page as it's primary... (so sayeth my old recollections on troubleshooting character conversion issues in a NAS product between hebrew/windows and a server-side virus scanning engine...) Solution: don't use windows. :-) -jbl On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:36 AM, David Reiss <dbreiss at gmail.com> wrote: > I can see it on my mac and not on Windows. I assume that, as with all > fonts, you need an actual installed font to support seeing the > character. I assume that on the Windows machine there is no > supporting font but that it is presnet on a Mac. > > --David > > On Jan 25, 5:08 am, magma <mader... at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jan 24, 11:41 am, "Bruce Colletti" <bwcolle... at verizon.net> wrote: > > > > > Re 7.0.1 under WinXP. > > > > > On my machine, FromCharacterCode@1301 (as well as sundry other codes) > > > returns an empty square, yet on another machine, it returns the > expected > > > characters. > > > > > Why do the machines return different results? Or does this suggest > system > > > corruption? Thanks. > > > > > Bruce > > > > I confirm: > > What character should it be? > > >