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Roy
I need to put an arrow (-> but combined) in a textbox but it only shows a rectangle... Is there also a way to put an L and a small 1 as one character?
gabtdw
→ → → right arrow

Any of those should do the trick smile.gif
Roy
QUOTE (Earlofvarrok @ Aug 8 2009, 10:36 PM) *
→ → → right arrow

Any of those should do the trick smile.gif

The two first ones just display a rectangle and what exactly should I do with the two last?
Yippee
QUOTE (Roy @ Aug 8 2009, 05:00 PM) *
QUOTE (Earlofvarrok @ Aug 8 2009, 10:36 PM) *
→ → → right arrow

Any of those should do the trick smile.gif

The two first ones just display a rectangle and what exactly should I do with the two last?

→ is the HTML equivalent of →, although it might not work if you're typing it into a textbox, and I don't think it works outside of webpages. Try holding Alt and hitting 26 on your numpad (the numbers above the letters won't work). If that doesn't work, the text box most likely doesn't support Unicode or ASCII characters. I know anything coded in BlitzBasic doesn't, maybe your program is similar?

It would be helpful if you would be more specific. Are you trying to type text into a text box? Are you trying to program a textbox with that arrow in it either by default or as a result of user interaction? If you're trying to program it, what language are you using? VB.NET? HTML?
gabtdw
QUOTE (Roy @ Aug 8 2009, 10:00 PM) *
QUOTE (Earlofvarrok @ Aug 8 2009, 10:36 PM) *
→ → → right arrow

Any of those should do the trick smile.gif

The two first ones just display a rectangle and what exactly should I do with the two last?


I think that's a problem at your end - try changing your default charset to unicode. In Firefox, it's View>Character Encoding>UTF-8.
Roy
I found it a while ago (didn't had time to post it yet) and yes I had to be a bit more specific. It's more for visual c#, c++, basic etc, I think you guys more focused at websites etc (?).

I solved it by changing the font to something that did had an arrow in it.
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