How To Get "?" to Print 2

[SmokeEater]

I am trying to get the ? character to print. In my code I am using Chr(192) and I get the ? character as a result. What am I doing wrong?

 

[PHV]

So, you want to print ? and you get ? ?
Sorry to be so dense, but I don't see the issue here ...

FYI, ? is Chr(63) and feel free to use the "Preview Post" button.

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[SmokeEater]

I see how you could have trouble understanding my problem, when my post changes after I previewed it!! I am trying to get what is Chr(192) on the ASCII charts or unicode 2514 on the windows character map to print on my Access report. The information is being generated from a function. The function only wants to return "?". Any Ideas?

 

[PHV]

You may consider the ChrW function.

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[missinglinq]

Chr(192) should be generating a À character.

The Missinglinq

Richmond, Virginia

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[SmokeEater]

If you look at the ASCII chart
ASCII Chart
or
Unicode
you will see that ASCII character 192 and Unicode 2514 are a box drawing light up and right

this is the character I am trying to recreate.

 

[Eupher]

SmokeEater,

Try ChrW(9492)

HTH,

Ken S.

 

[SmokeEater]

Thanks that works great. Where did you find that ChrW(9492)?

 

[Eupher]

Hi, SmokeEater,

Working off PHV's tip, I checked out the ChrW function, which led me to the AscW function. AscW is essentially the inverse of ChrW - given a character, AscW returns its corresponding ASCII code. So I created a form with a textbox ([blue][Text0][/blue]), and another textbox with the control source set to "=AscW([Text0])". Then I copied and pasted the character in question from the Character Map applet into Text0, and voila! The 2nd textbox displayed 9492. To further test it, I created a 3rd textbox with a control source of "=ChrW(9492)" and it correctly displayed your character. I played around with a few other unicode characters just to confirm it wasn't a fluke.

There you have it.

Ken S.

 

[SmokeEater]

Hi,Eupher

Thanks for the help and info.