Question Special Characters

[Carlo H. Francisco]

How to put special characters in an output.
I am looking for the check mark character, is there a list of special character with its codes on it?

Thanks for the replies guys, like!

 

[Stefan]

utf-8 contains all unicode code points so it should be possible to do something more correct like put chr( 10003, "utf-8" ) , but this was the quickest way to get the check mark (Unicode Character 'CHECK MARK' (U+2713)) in a file:

output to "c:\temp\output.txt".

put control chr( 0xe2 ) chr( 0x9c ) chr( 0x93 ).

output close.

 

[Carlo H. Francisco]

It is not showing the check mark, does this utp compatible to window xp? Where can i find those list of codes? thanks for the reply stefan so much appreciated.

 

[Stefan]

Windows XP... good luck.

 

[Osborne]

As per Stefan's quote, you will not have much joy with Windows XP.

When you ask for a list of codes, do you mean a list of the special characters available? If you start a session with -cpinternal utf-8 you can obtain them running something like this - expand the numbers for more:

define variable vChar as character label "Character" no-undo.
define variable vCount as integer label "Number" no-undo.

repeat vCount = 14851200 TO 14851260:
   vChar = CHR(vCount).
   DISP vCount vChar.
END.

Then to get the Hex code:

MESSAGE System.Convert:ToString(14851219, 16) VIEW-AS ALERT-BOX.

This will give e29c93 which matches the UTF-8 (hex) value in brackets on the site Stefan posted.