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Hi Renald

I don't know what You should do, but it's not a
symbol for diameter You are using it is actually
a Danish character and that is probably why not all
computer have it in their default font.
It is part of 
Codepage 850 
alt + 233  ø
alt + 235  Ø

ISO-8859-1
alt + 0216   Ø Ø 
alt + 0248   ø ø 

The corect symbol for diameter is part of the symbolfont
and have the code 0xC6.

You can use charmap.exe to find it

Kind regards
Asger

Asger Jorgensen wrote:

> You are using it is actually
>a Danish character and that is probably why not all
>computer have it in their default font.

Looks Greek to me.
Right next to alpha beta delta  pi and epsilon
Theta come to mind

>It is part of 
>Codepage 850 
>alt + 233  �
>alt + 235  �

Bob Gonder <notbg@notmindspring.invalid> wrote:

>Looks Greek to me.
>Right next to alpha beta delta  pi and epsilon
>Theta come to mind
>
>>It is part of 
>>Codepage 850 
>>alt + 233  �
>>alt + 235  �

It theta came to mind, it should be told that it was unwanted and be
ordered to go away again. Theta is a tall oval with a horizontal line. A
circle with an oblique line through it would be phi.

But that's assuming you're using that character set. In the Windows
8859-1 character set, the closest is the 216/248 pair of characters.

Alan Bellingham
-- 
Team Browns
ACCU Conference 2008: 2-5 April 2008 - Oxford (probably), UK

Hi Bob

In article <vc9ha3tp27t3c9g0p746tdnrs1qu5plr51@4ax.com>, 
notbg@notmindspring.invalid says...
> Asger Jorgensen wrote:
> 
> > You are using it is actually
> >a Danish character and that is probably why not all
> >computer have it in their default font.
> 
> Looks Greek to me.
> Right next to alpha beta delta  pi and epsilon
> Theta come to mind

Theta is close, You just have to turn it 45 degrees 
counter clock and then make the line a little bit longer.;-)
No it is Danish, believe me I've had to deal with it all my 
programming life..
All english letter You can get from Uppet to lower case by
adding 32 ( as You know ), but thats not the case with the 
Danish characters, and they are not even in the right order 
in the codepage, that sucks..

for refference:
greek alphabet:
http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/gle/images/greek_alphabet.gif
danish alphabet:
http://www.speakdanish.dk/images/alphabet.gif

kind regards
Asger

>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
>
> 

Just replying to myself - a simpler way might be to use the \x escape 
sequence in a string (I was reminded of this just now, it's in a comment 
about five threads down!) and then painting it using TextOut or something. 
But I'm fairly sure this only works in a Unicode / widechar string literal. 
(I can't find anything about it in the Borland help, only MSDN, so I'm 
guessing as to the behaviour using BC++.)

If you're using the VCL for output you still need to convert your Unicode 
strings to ANSI in the right codepage, as my first post discussed.  You 
could cheat and use a Unicode-aware VCL control too, there are some quite 
good third-party ones.

Finally I think assigning a WideString to an AnsiString performs some kind 
of conversion, but I don't know the details.  I'm pretty certain whatever it 
does is not overly reliable and doing it manually gives better results, but 
I honestly don't know.

Cheers,

David



"David M" <vintagedave@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:46a95084@newsgroups.borland.com...
> >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
>>
>>
>
>