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>Is there any function to map this diameter symbol to any font?
>What must be set on programmatically so that I do not depend on the default 
>font.

The best thing to do would be to use the Unicode character (U+00D8 for the 
capital, U+00F8 for lowercase) and map it into something useable at runtime. 
Note that there's no guarantee that a Unicode character really can be mapped 
to a character in a specific codepage, so you may want to have a fallback 
character to use in the worst case (eg, 'd' or something.)

I'd suggest you look at using ::WideCharToMultiByte, probably passing in 
CP_THREAD_ACP for the codepage.  For example, using a buffer called szAnsi 
large enough to hold the conversion results (note it's a string, not a 
character, even if in practice here you're only converting one character),

   const WideString strSymbol(static_cast<wchar_t>(0xF8));
   int iSize(WideCharToMultiByte(CP_THREAD_ACP, 0, strSymbol.c_bstr(), 1, 
szAnsi, iBUFFER_SIZE, NULL, NULL));
   if (iSize == 0) {
      // conversion failed, return your fallback character
   } else {
      // return a std::string or AnsiString based on szAnsi
   }

Codegear will be bringing out a Unicode-enabled VCL next year, so soon stuff 
like this will be a thing of the past.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

David


"Renald Yazmir" <renald@partmaker.com> wrote in message 
news:46a775e8$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to output a diameter symbol '�'
>
> I defined it as
>
> #define DIAMETER_SYMBOL  '�'
> and then I strcpy or strcat it to my output text. It works well.
>
> But on some computers diameter symbol is not recognized by the default 
> font. It appears as
> something else. My guess is that default font on that computer does not
> support this character.
> Is there any function to map this diameter symbol to any font?
>
> What must be set on programmatically so that I do not depend on the 
> default font.
> Or any other solution.
>
>
>
> Thank you
>
> Rony
>
>