Help typing Greek characters in a textbox in VB 5.0 
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 Help typing Greek characters in a textbox in VB 5.0

Did you try to set the Font property of the TextBox to an appropiate
font (with greek characters)?

Uli Foerster

Quote:

> Can anyone help met with the following problem?

> I already installed the Greek Keyboard layout in the control panel Keyboard
> option, I'm using Windows 95 OSR2.
> And I can type Greek characters in WordPad or Word 7.0, but when I try to
> enter the same thing in an Access database field I get different
> characters.
> What I want to do is write a VB program that manages my Access database,
> but then I must be able to enter the data in Greek in a textbox in VB. I
> already tried it but I'm getting different characters than in Word or
> WordPad. The program will be used to enter ingredient lists in different
> languages (Dutch, French, English(=> no problem), Greek (=>problem)).

> Is there a way to enter the ingredients in Greek in a textbox in VB?

> greetings

> Wim



Wed, 29 Dec 1999 03:00:00 GMT  
 Help typing Greek characters in a textbox in VB 5.0

Check the font property and look for the script box.  Certain TTF fonts
from MS such as Arial and Times New Roman support Greek.  However this
script option can only be changed at design time and not runtime (my
personal grip with MS).

Dave



Thu, 30 Dec 1999 03:00:00 GMT  
 
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