Greek Symbols in Labels
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Hey all: I want to write some greek symbols in labels. Like instead of "phi" I want to display its symbol. Can you please help me how can I do this.
Hi, this is one way that works (I'm explaining in C# syntax, but that is not really relevant): open MS Word, type the text you want, use the "Insert Symbol..." menu to insert special characters (whose Unicode code you dont know by heart; keep a normal font, but adapt the subset as needed), then copy everything you want to the clipboard. Now either paste to the Text property of your label in Visual Designer. Or paste into the literal part of a statement such as myLabel.Text="..."; (if you do this with non-ASCII characters, Visual will suggest you save the source file in Unicode format, instead of regular ASCII). If you happen to know the Unicode codes, you can also insert Unicode escape characters in string literals (so you can keep an ASCII source file); in C# they take the form \u#### where # represents a hex digit. I trust something similar exists in VB.NET too These Unicode escape sequences however seem unavailable in Visual Designer. :)
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Hi, this is one way that works (I'm explaining in C# syntax, but that is not really relevant): open MS Word, type the text you want, use the "Insert Symbol..." menu to insert special characters (whose Unicode code you dont know by heart; keep a normal font, but adapt the subset as needed), then copy everything you want to the clipboard. Now either paste to the Text property of your label in Visual Designer. Or paste into the literal part of a statement such as myLabel.Text="..."; (if you do this with non-ASCII characters, Visual will suggest you save the source file in Unicode format, instead of regular ASCII). If you happen to know the Unicode codes, you can also insert Unicode escape characters in string literals (so you can keep an ASCII source file); in C# they take the form \u#### where # represents a hex digit. I trust something similar exists in VB.NET too These Unicode escape sequences however seem unavailable in Visual Designer. :)
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] [Forum Guidelines]