qwert Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 (edited) I've been trying to place a box (aka, "white square", "ballot box", etc.) in a line of text that's written with a FileWrite statement. So far, nothing has worked. But I was able to place a bullet symbol (Alt+0149) directly in the text. I've made other attempts with ChrW( ) and tried different fonts, like Tahoma and Verdana. My general question is: how can I place a hex character code (for example, 0x25a1) in a line of text? And is there a special setting for the Unicode Characters? Thanks in advance for any help. I'm unsure which direction to look for a solution. (BTW, for a selection of possible characters, go to this http://shapecatcher.com/ site and draw a square in the highlighted area. It will display a dozen choices.) P.S. ... and, if you can, please move this to General Help, where I should have posted. Thanks. Edited January 23, 2014 by qwert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchd Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Just FileOpen your output file in some UTF mode. Not doing so would try a conversion from Unicode to ANSI, and fail for most characters. Then FileWrite and ChrW(0x25a1) -i.e. white square- will do what you expect them to. Moving the thread will need a moderator. This wonderful site allows debugging and testing regular expressions (many flavors available). An absolute must have in your bookmarks.Another excellent RegExp tutorial. Don't forget downloading your copy of up-to-date pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe hereRegExp tutorial: enough to get startedPCRE v8.33 regexp documentation latest available release and currently implemented in AutoIt beta. SQLitespeed is another feature-rich premier SQLite manager (includes import/export). Well worth a try.SQLite Expert (freeware Personal Edition or payware Pro version) is a very useful SQLite database manager.An excellent eBook covering almost every aspect of SQLite3: a must-read for anyone doing serious work.SQL tutorial (covers "generic" SQL, but most of it applies to SQLite as well)A work-in-progress SQLite3 tutorial. Don't miss other LxyzTHW pages!SQLite official website with full documentation (may be newer than the SQLite library that comes standard with AutoIt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwert Posted January 23, 2014 Author Share Posted January 23, 2014 That worked. Just FileOpen your output file in some UTF mode. I used UTF-8, based on its "wide-spread use". As it turned out, I had to change to the Large White Square (0x2b1c) to get the effect I wanted when using Tahoma. It's a relief to know that I can now get to the huge cache of special characters with simple write operations. While researching the UTF choices, I found this rather complete article on how ASCII/UTF8/UTF16 all fit in the big picture: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html Thanks very much for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Melba23 Posted January 23, 2014 Moderators Share Posted January 23, 2014 qwert,Moved as requested. M23 Any of my own code posted anywhere on the forum is available for use by others without any restriction of any kind Open spoiler to see my UDFs: Spoiler ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columnsChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listingDate_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language usedExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBoxGUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUIGUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable framesGUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView itemsGUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeViewMarquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIsNoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxesNotify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the displayScrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single commandStringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit textToast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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