[DUG] Thai Baht Symbol - or Hex value to String converted

[Brian Wrigley]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Peacocke" <steve.peacocke at gmail.com>
To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <delphi at delphi.org.nz>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: [DUG] Thai Baht Symbol - or Hex value to String converted


> Hello Brian,
>
> The "uppercase beta" that you are seeing is in fact the character used
> for the Baht symbol. See
> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0e3f/index.htm

Oops ... seems I have been describing it incorrectly. What I see in your
previous email should apparently be called a "lowercase beta" and is this
character: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00df/index.htm

So, the character has been sent as one unicode character but received as
another, apparently converted by my mail client because it realised the
correct character would not be displayed on my system.

However, my point that even correctly-coded unicode is not necessarily
displayed correctly but depends on the displaying system is irrelevant if
you've now found something that works - presumably because it controls the
display process as well as the encoding.

> I understand what you are saying, but this will be installed onto a
> full hardware sealed-box "device" (I am unable to elaborate on that)
> so we have total control over what the user sees whether here in new
> Zealand or in Mongolia or anywhere on the planet. Thankfully we are
> able to make that definate.
>
> I have ordered the TMS Unicode package (actually the full suite,
> should be interesting), so hopefully this will be here shortly and I
> can use it. preliminary trials with the downloadable trial components
> have, so far, proven successful.


Good luck with it,
Brian


>
> Thanks again.
>
> Steve
> --
> Steve Peacocke
> http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/
>
> On 03/08/07, Brian Wrigley <bswrigley at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> > Hi Steve,
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steve Peacocke" <steve.peacocke at gmail.com>
> > To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <delphi at delphi.org.nz>
> > Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 8:46 AM
> > Subject: Re: [DUG] Thai Baht Symbol - or Hex value to String converted
> >
> >
> > > Except that I can see it rendered on a web page, I can copy that
> > > character into MS Word and it shows as a character. I can also copy
> > > that character into this email (ß) and it shows correctly (Gmail, on
> > > the internet).
> >
> > By the time that gets to me in Outlook Express, it shows as an uppercase
> > beta (chr(223)). Possibly something along the way has converted it to
the
> > nearest approximation that can be shown on my computer.
> >
> > Pound, Euro, Yen and a few others are no problem - there are symbols for
> > them among the high characters of most of the common fonts. No such luck
> > with the Baht. Even if you encode the Baht character correctly (eg in
> > Unicode) most people will still only see either a question mark or a
square
> > box unless they are using a suitable code page/font choice combination.
In
> > Thailand they probably do; elsewhere, you might be out of luck.
> >
> > > Therefore, there should be a way that I can display that character in
> > > a Label on a form.
> >
> > You'd need a label component that uses Widestrings instead of strings,
and
> > the user would need their machine set up appropriately. Otherwise they'd
see
> > question marks or square boxes. You might be better to use a little icon
or
> > write the word "Baht".
> >
> > > Code Pages? A search of both D2007 and D7 help files produce a zero
> > > result on this. Can you elaborate?
> >
> > Joel Spolsky explains the whole mess quite entertainingly here
> > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
> >
> >
> > Brian
> >
>
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