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#199666 - 2010-08-26 04:35 PM Euro Symbol will not display on screen
Shuj Shuj Just in Town Registered: 2010-08-25 Posts: 1 Loc: Spain	Whilst I have no problems with putting a Euro symbol (€) in my scripts and outputing it on text files which I can print, I just cannot find any way of displaying the € symbol on screen. Help please!!! Does anyone out there know how to do this?
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#199668 - 2010-08-26 05:59 PM Re: Euro Symbol will not display on screen [Re: Shuj]
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	what you mean with screen? dos console? _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#199676 - 2010-08-27 04:08 AM Re: Euro Symbol will not display on screen [Re: Lonkero]
Allen Allen KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-04-19 Posts: 4567 Loc: USA	Not sure it's possible without some mods... See if this helps. http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/eurodos.html and http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=564852
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#199677 - 2010-08-27 04:40 AM Re: Euro Symbol will not display on screen [Re: Allen]
Allen Allen KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-04-19 Posts: 4567 Loc: USA	This may not be the best answer, but here is something that does work. Open your cmd console. In the upper left corner of the window, right click on the icon, and select Properties. On the Font Tab, Choose the "Lucida Console" font.
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#199678 - 2010-08-27 08:22 AM Re: Euro Symbol will not display on screen [Re: Allen]
Arend_ Arend_ MM club member Registered: 2005-01-17 Posts: 1896 Loc: Hilversum, The Netherlands	I wish there was a similar thing to HIDE the Eurovision Songfestival, but yeah... $;\)$
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#199680 - 2010-08-27 09:32 AM

Re: Euro Symbol will not display on screen [Re: Arend_]

Richard H. Offline

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Registered: 2000-01-24
Posts: 4946
Loc: Leatherhead, Surrey, UK

You should be able to do this by temporarily changing your code page.

This works for me. Before running it set $iMyCodePage to the right value. You can get it my running "chcp" with no parameters in a DOS window.

Code:

$=SetOption("ASCII","ON") ; *** Must be in ASCII mode

$iMyCodePage=850 ; *** Set this to your value - use CHCP at command prompt to see what it is
$iWinCodePage=1252
$iEuro=128 ; *** Don't be tempted to use $Euro=CHR(128) here, it won't work.

"Normal code page, euro character : "+Chr($iEuro)+@CRLF

; Switch to code page with euro support.
Shell "cmd /C chcp "+$iWinCodePage
"Windows code page, euro character: "+Chr($iEuro)+@CRLF

; return to standard code page.
Shell "cmd /C chcp "+$iMyCodePage

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#199681 - 2010-08-27 03:39 PM Re: Euro Symbol will not display on screen [Re: Richard H.]
Allen Allen KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-04-19 Posts: 4567 Loc: USA	That's first of CHCP I've heard of... doing a little g-search, reveals that MODE can do this too... Quote: MODE CON CP and CHCP both display the currently active codepage. And MODE CON CP SELECT=437 and CHCP 437 both set the active codepage to 437. Pretty cool.
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#199682 - 2010-08-27 04:50 PM Re: Euro Symbol will not display on screen [Re: Allen]
Allen Allen KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-04-19 Posts: 4567 Loc: USA	Richard, did you already have your console font set to Lucida Console? The reason I ask is it appears that with the Raster Fonts, your script outputs Code: Normal code page, euro character : Ç Active code page: 1252 Windows code page, euro character: Ç Active code page: 437 However, with the Lucida Console font, it works right. Code: Normal code page, euro character : Ç Active code page: 1252 Windows code page, euro character: € Active code page: 437
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#199683 - 2010-08-27 05:19 PM Re: Euro Symbol will not display on screen [Re: Allen]
Richard H. Richard H. Administrator Registered: 2000-01-24 Posts: 4946 Loc: Leatherhead, Surrey, UK	Yes you're correct - I retested with both fonts and I get the same result that you do.
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#199690 - 2010-08-28 03:25 PM Re: Euro Symbol will not display on screen [Re: Allen]
Glenn Barnas Glenn Barnas KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-01-28 Posts: 4402 Loc: New Jersey	Originally Posted By: Allen Pretty cool. You young pups missed the whole DOS thing, where you HAD to know MODE to set your COM and LPT settings, console color and such.. G- _________________________ Actually I am a Rocket Scientist! $\:D$
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#199691 - 2010-08-28 06:02 PM Re: Euro Symbol will not display on screen [Re: Glenn Barnas]
Allen Allen KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-04-19 Posts: 4567 Loc: USA	LOL... I'm older than you think... I lived DOS very vividly, thank you very much.
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