Re: Displaying characters on a form from another code page

Arial Unicode MS doesn't come out of the box with Windows. It's part of Office.
I would rather recommend Microsoft Sans Serif or Tahoma.

Note that in most cases, your best bet is simply not to select any font: Windows usually does a good job at selecting the right font for you if the selected one doesn't contain the needed glyphs.

My 2 cents,

Serge.
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"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-here@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:uvcc7bfYIHA.1164@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<adiel_g@xxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb:
I am trying to display some data that I received into a form. The
form is in english. The data is in cyrillic (russian) which uses
codepage 1251. I am trying to change the button text to russian. For
example:

cmdCancel.Text = "Îòìåíèòü"

Windows Forms controls are unicode-aware. Read the into a string (take a look at 'System.Text.Encoding.*') and simply assign it to the control's 'Text' property. Note that youÄll have to select a font which contains glyphs for the characters you want to display (such as Arial Unicode MS).

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