Re: Special character for Rx?

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On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:35:41 -0400, Dirk Goldgar wrote:

"Sylvain Lafontaine" <sylvain aei ca (fill the blanks, no spam please)>
wrote in message news:egxTmSULJHA.1156@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Should work without any problem. What version of Windows and of Access
are you using?

"Jim Burke in Novi" <JimBurkeinNovi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:1783DEC1-DB18-427E-9D23-2389AC10A527@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Spoke too soon. I tried an unbound control with a control source of
=chrw(8478), just gives me a funny looking square shape. Do I need a
particular font? It defaults to Arial.

According to the Character Map application, that character is not defined in
the Arial font, nor in several others I've looked at. Sylvain, can you see
this character in Arial on your PC? Jim, I may be missing something, but I
think you have to identify a font that actually provides a definition for
that symbol. I'm not sure how you'd go about it, though. Further, it has
to be a font that is present on the computer that is running the
application, so unless this is only for your computer, or you have
sufficient control over the installation that you can distribute fonts with
it, you would want it to be one of the fonts that is commonly available.

As an alternative if you can't find such a font, you could capture the
character as an image and display it in an image control.

Dirk,
Using Windows XP, Office 2002, I can't see it in Character Map on my
computer either, but in my database application, =chrw(8478) does
indeed display the Rx symbol in Form View, and copying it to
AutoCorrect works, using standard fonts.
It also works on my wife's Access 2003 application, without my finding
it in her Character Map either.

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