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ASCII Character problem in Windows XP

Hi, I'm using VB.NET2010 (VS2010), WinForms. I have a Form with a Textbox. At certain points of adding text to my Textbox, I add a "check" character, which is ChrW(10004). It works very well in Windows Vista and in Windows 7, but in XP I get a little square box. Obviously, XP cannot recognize the ASCII character I'm trying to add to the Textbox.

Is there something I can do to avoid this?

I thought of adding an image, but its a Textbox, not a RTB. --- I should be using a RTB and add an image?

Thanks for your advice.
Fulano

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Francisco Igor

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Mr_Fulano

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Fraiger, I need to add a check character, because my application calls for it, but I may be able to use an image if I can get it into the Textbox or in this case, I'd need to add a RichTextBox to add an image. What do you mean -- "(it needs to be editable??)"...? What needs to be editable?

Francisco Igor

Can you use a textbox with a checkbox control,
I mean editable when you need to make the text editable by the user,
or it's a fixed text? you probably need a checkbox with text label if the text is fixed

Mr_Fulano

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No...its an image type of purpose. It simply give the user some into...it has no actual functionality other than being informative.

Mr_Fulano

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Fraigor, I'm going to award you the points, because its too time consuming to try to get the question deleted, but your answer was not really what I was looking for. I do however think you tried.

In the end the solution was removing the special character and it worked fine.

Fulano

Mr_Fulano

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Not a great solution, but he tried.