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Hello, I'm trying to display the characters that can be seen on the website below within a string gadget.

http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/runic.html

Now, I've tried using Chr(5792) etc but nothing is showing up.

I've not coded for years, so forgive my stupidity on this. Can it be done? I know the actual string gadget is capable of displaying the characters because I can copy and paste them into it, I just can't write them in from my code.

I'm on Windows 7 by the way (Pure basic 4.*)

Any help would be greatly appreciated on this, thanks.

Hello Caffeine

Firstly, ensure you have fonts that support the specific Unicode characters you wish to use.

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... 13&t=42552

http://www.xs4all.nl/~bluez/purebasic/p ... #2_unicode

Thanks for the quick reply. So if the user doesn't have a font capable of displaying these characters, they simply won't show up?

My intention is to have some words written in those runic characters (this would be within a String Gadget) that can then be copied to the clipboard to be pasted elsewhere, e.g a text editor.

I was hoping it would have been a simple solution, but I'm now starting to think that isn't going to be the case :roll:

Without the font, the string will look something like this: ????????

If a User is to copy and paste into another app, that app must of course be designed to support Unicode too.

Hi and thanks again for the input. Ok having slept on it I have now gone back to the very basics.

I have installed a font that uses the runic character set. I have set up a window with a String Gadget that uses the installed font. Now if I copy this character ᚠ from the site in the link in the first post, and paste it into my string gadget, it displays. So I know all that works. So it has to be something to do with the way I am trying to generate the character from within my code?

Even if I try SetClipboardText (Chr(5792)) it simply displays a "space" with no character when I paste. Or if I set my gadget text like the following, it displays a space rather than the character.

Global Runetxt$ = Chr(5792)

SetGadgetText(#string_1, Runetxt$)

Any further ideas on this? am I on the right track?

Thanks again for all your help.

> Global Runetxt$ = Chr(5792)

If you select "File -> File format -> Encoding: Utf8", this should work.

This is a limitation of the compiler. It can only handle literal unicode characters if the file is UTF8. The expression "Chr(<fixed number>)" is treated as a literal character too, this is why it is affected as well.

Thank you so much, it works ᚠ

You're a star, thanks!

One last question. Will I need "Create unicode executable" checked when I create the exe?

Yes.