ascii code

[rpool]

I have problem,

Do you known it. that non-Ascii chars is between: from... to ?

I simple check, that result is 33 to 126 is I known chars.

(Q1) 33 to 126 is Ascii , correct ?

(Q2) < 33 is what used ?

(Q3) > 126 what is it ?



Please!

Private Sub Command1_Click()

Dim a As Integer
For a = 0 To 255
List1.AddItem a & ">" & Chr(a)
Next a


End Sub

[pcuser]

http://www.asciitable.com/

[Merri]

Originally 128 first characters were defined in a character set known as ASCII. This left one bit unused out of the 8 bits available. Then people made their own extended character sets. In some countries they made character sets that used even more bits on some characters (Japan and China to name the most remarkable, I think).

This was a mess, because characters 128 - 255 could be very different depending on the character set being used. For one example, DOS uses a different character set than what is being used in Windows. Even if the 128 first characters match, the other characters do not.

This problem has been solved these days: we have Unicode that defines code points. These code points can be encoded using UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32. In UTF-32 the code points match perfectly with the value represented in a single 32-bit character code.

UTF-16 matches for the most part in it's range (0 to 65535), but there is a special surrogate range (which I can't remember from the top of my head) that allows for a second 16-bit value to be used so that all the code point values can be achieved.

Then there is UTF-8. It was made for the need of having a backwards compatible 8-bit Unicode set. Like all the old character sets, the 128 first characters are from the ASCII table. However, everything above that is reserved for creating the remaining code points and more bytes are used to get these values.

Now you know.

[rpool]

thanks! Because I need simple check that field string is....

str = "abcd"

str = "japan_font string"

I found "ChrW" , "AscW" can help me ?

Pseudo Code:

Dim str as string
if str ascii < 128
msgbox "this is english string" & str
else
msgbox "this maybe chinese,japan string" & str
end if

Any simple please!

[Hassan Basri]

Try doing it with byte arrays like this:

Dim iCounter As Integer
Dim byt() As Byte
Dim bln As Boolean

byt = "abcd"

For iCounter = 0 To UBound(byt)
    If byt(iCounter) > 128 Then
        bln = True
        Exit For
    End If
Next iCounter

If bln Then
    MsgBox "Your string has characters above 128.", vbOKOnly + vbInformation
Else
    MsgBox "Your string characters are all below 128.", vbOKOnly + vbInformation
End If

[Merri]

You can use AscW to check an individual character. To see which language is in question you can take a look at Unicode chart made by someone. It has to be noted, of course, that some characters are very widely used and it is impossible to know the language based on just that latter.

Note that in VB6 you can't easily display Unicode, it will be hard to make VB display Japanese for you. I've made some Unicode controls as have some others (most of them commercially), native controls are unable to do the work for you.

[LaVolpe]

Just for information only. Here is a good site I visit quite often for unicode related questions. It doesn't have all the answers, but is worth bookmarking in my opinion.

[rpool]

thanks, I maybe wrong mean "uni-code"

I mean is some Windows Version , can provide "that country language string, AND english string"

because, my windows is "window (japan version",
this version, I can input "japan font" and "english font" both same

in Text1.Text (object is :textbox. NOT richTextbox)

now, because I do not knwon my database that field is what string ? mean "english, or japan"

I try simple use "Ascii < 128" to verify it .

if "ascii < 128" , 
simple to confirm is ENGLISH
Text1.Font = "Courier New"
else
Text1.Font = "japan font"
end if

now, write this code,
I simple check "each AscW() < Len(str) * 128
but what wrong ?

Please!

Private Sub Command1_Click()

Dim str As String
Dim result As Boolean

str = "abcd"


'this web can all non-englisg chars "to" str(
'http://www.cyberactivex.com/UnicodeTutorialVb.htm#Fonts

Dim N As Integer
Dim sum As Double
sum = 0


	For N = 1 To Len(str)
		sum = sum + (AscW(Mid(str, N, 1)))
		MsgBox sum
	Next N

    
	If Val(Len(str)) * Val(128) < sum Then
		result = False
	Else
		result = True
	End If


If bln Then
    MsgBox "english string." & str
Else
    MsgBox "maybe chinese." & str
End If

End Sub

[Hack]

now, write this code,
I simple check "each AscW() < Len(str) * 128
but what wrong ?

We don't know...what is wrong? Do you get errors?

[rpool]

I think that "bln" = boolean is some wrong,

If bln Then , mean = If bln = False Then. ?


And , calc Each is > 128 or < 128 , is simple method ?

please!