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How to display Vulgar Fractions

 
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How to display Vulgar Fractions, How to display Vulgar Fraction One Third
Caeanis
17 Dec, 2007 - 04:44 AM
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I have been unsuccessfully able to print the Vulgar Fraction One Third (⅓). I have tried using CHW(8537), ChW(&H2153), normalize and a few other suggestions I've seen posted elsewhere. Is there a way to return the exact character? Incidentally, the other vulgar fractions with even denominators (One Eighth for example) work just fine using Chw. I am trying to write the character to an xml file but I am using messagebox to double check that the correct value is getting posted.

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17 Dec, 2007 - 05:51 AM
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Try ChrW(8531)

I think 8537 is 1/6...
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17 Dec, 2007 - 01:49 PM
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Try ChrW(8531)

I think 8537 is 1/6...


You are right. It is ChrW(8531), but it still gives me a square symbol. Is there a way to force that character or maybe to set the default font for dialog boxes? What I want to do is write the value as an innertext value of an xmlnode, but I want to be sure that it actually writes the vulgar fraction and not some nonsensical character.

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I tried displaying the fraction in a message box. It looks fine, though a little small. Going on a guess here, maybe your Windows don't have Unicode support on display? Some setting perhaps?

As for writing to XML files, you can try writing the HTML entity & # 8531; (remove the 2 spaces between ampersand and hex, and hex and 8) directly into the file instead. Example, you can write the string "This is vulgar fraction one third & # 8531;" in the XML file (or inner text of node).
Check this out, and you can also search for "html entity vulgar fraction one third".

After you wrote the XML file, try opening it up in Internet Explorer, or any XML browser. You should have the fraction displayed.

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