how to get unicode chars from vb app into a file

I've attached a file created in notepad and saved in the unicode format.

My requirement is that I want to be able to do this from within my vb application so I can take advantage of the 65k's worth of unicode charactors.

I've been wrestling with this for a day now and am at a stand still.

Can somebody make this easy for me?

I just want to be able to use some of those nifty chars that are beyond the 255 ascii's.
Nothing exotic.

Help?

I'm not sure I understand, but AscW(MySingleChar) will give the Unicode value of a character.

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I'm not sure I understand

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From my vb application, I want to create a file and write unicode chars to it (actually I'm only interested in the "Full Block" char that's listed in the 'courier new' fonts from charmap.exe. It's hex 2588.

Then...I want to open it with notepad and see those chars.

I've posted this question in various forums and keep getting relatively simplistic answers that don't give me enough info.

Apparently this isn't as easy as it sounds.

Either that or I'm dumber than I think.