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Unicode characters from VFP9

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Topic: Unicode characters from VFP9

Posted By: Cerceris
Subject: Unicode characters from VFP9
Date Posted: 25 Feb 16 at 10:48AM

I use Debenu Quick PDF Library 11.11 with Visual Foxpro 9.
I do not have the option to send directly to PDF Unicode characters.
Iwant to see DrawHtmlText. Ineed to show ♀ and ♂.

I used

QP.NewDocument()

QP.SetPageSize("A4")

QP.SetOrigin(1)

FontID1 = QP.AddTrueTypeFont("Times New Roman", 1)

QP.SetHTMLNormalFont("Default", FontID1)

QP.DrawHTMLText(20, 20, 150, "#2640 #2642")

Displays "#2640 #2642” and not ♀ ♂

Is there any possibility to succeed?

Thanks

Replies:

Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 25 Feb 16 at 10:35PM

Hi Cerceris;

i don't have experiences with DrawHTMLText but i know that your string doesn't contain the correct value for the male- and female-symbol in html-code.

The correct html-code in this case is:

for female:

♀

and for male:

♂

The bad thing is that DrawHTMLText supports only a subset of mainly style tags and not symbols.

In your case (IDE without unicode support and there#s only need to get two signs) i would create two small images using them instead of real characters.

Cheers and welcome here,

Ingo

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Cheers,
Ingo

Posted By: Cerceris
Date Posted: 26 Feb 16 at 6:47AM

I tried, but again unsuccessfully.
I will use your advice with two small images.

Thank you for the quick reply,

Cerceris