Interesting Gotcha

[Guest]

I just discovered the following:

chr(140) = "OE"
chr(156) = "OE"
chr(198) = "AE"
chr(222) = "TH"
chr(223) = "SS"
chr(230) = "AE"
chr(254) = "TH"

-zorpy

 

[Brian Henry]

I don't know what you are doing but those are all false to me..

Console.WriteLine(Chr(140) = "OE")

Console.WriteLine(Chr(156) = "OE")

Console.WriteLine(Chr(198) = "AE")

Console.WriteLine(Chr(222) = "TH")

Console.WriteLine(Chr(223) = "SS")

Console.WriteLine(Chr(230) = "AE")

Console.WriteLine(Chr(254) = "TH")



all returns false not true so they are NOT equal

 

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Zopry,
See my previous message.

This confirms my suspicion, that you are using Option Compare Text, as I
understand that:

AE is a common replacement for Æ - chr(198)
ae is a common replacement for æ - chr(230)
SS is a common replacement for ß - chr(223) (actually I understand that
SS is an upper case ß)
OE is a common replacement for O - chr(140)
oe is a common replacement for o - chr(156)

I would expect that TH is a common replacement for Þ, however I have not
seen or used Þ, then again I see more German then Icelandic.

By "common replacement" I mean in ASCII or US typewriters that only have
characters A to Z & a to z...

Hope this helps
Jay


|I just discovered the following:
|
| chr(140) = "OE"
| chr(156) = "OE"
| chr(198) = "AE"
| chr(222) = "TH"
| chr(223) = "SS"
| chr(230) = "AE"
| chr(254) = "TH"
|
| -zorpy

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Zorpiedoman,

Just as addition.

All previous answers are in my idea confirming the 1252 code page, so when
you have another one the answers can be different.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/4038/graph/fontset.htm#b

I hope this helps,

Cor