Difference between Chr$ and ChrW$

[Darin Lampson]

Hi,

In my app I want to create a string using Chr however since my app is being
internationalized for Chinese, French and English chr does not work. I have
looked into using Chr$ and came across ChrW$ in michka book. I have tested
both and it both seem to work fine on english, french and chinese os's.
So, I am wondering what are the differences of each and is either of these
functions the best way to create a string based on charcode?

Thanks

[Michael (michka) Kaplan [MS]]

The book covers this topic -- Chr() creates a character based on the
default system codepage, while ChrW takes the Unicode code point
(which has nothing to do with code pages).

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[Darin Lampson]

I am still confused. In your book you reccomend to use ChrW$ over Chr$/Chr
and with my tests on win 98 chinese second edition, win 2000, win XP both
act the same. I am just curious on the reason why. Just doing this kind of
operation: ChrW$(84) & ChrW$(85) & ChrW$(84) & ChrW$(70) & ChrW$(79) &
ChrW$(77)

Thanks again with your patient with me

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[Michael (michka) Kaplan [MS]]

In the very low ASCII range, the default system code page and Unicode
do not change. As you go from 128 to 255 in CHr$() you will see
different results depending on that default system code page.

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