Text Encoding - ASCII

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Amjad

Hi,
Why do I get this character (ÿ) when I try to display the
blank ASCII character number 255?

MsgBox (Chr(255))

I think I need to set the text encoding to ASCII somehow,
but I don't know how. Any ideas?
 
* "Amjad said:
Why do I get this character (ÿ) when I try to display the
blank ASCII character number 255?
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There is no ASCII character. ASCII has only characters from 0 to 127,
it's a 7 bit encoding.
 
Thanks.
How can I receive (in a string) only ASCII characters
from the user's input textbox and simply ignore non-ASCII
characters if there was any?

Amjad
 
Amjad,
How can I receive (in a string) only ASCII characters
from the user's input textbox and simply ignore non-ASCII
characters if there was any?
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That sounds like a great way to make non-English users hate your
application.

But if you really want to do it, I suppose you could scan the string
for any characters with a value >=128, since the first 128 characters
of Unicode are the same as the ASCII IIRC.



Mattias
 
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