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You've all seen those ugly boxes. When you try to display a string and the font you have doesn't support all of the characters in it, you get an ugly box for the characters that aren't available in the font. Start with our scratch program and add this to the function: That string contains the first three letters from three different alphab...

The site www.emr.fr has been "under construction" for over eight years. I noticed it in June 1996 and check back on it periodically. Still Under Construction. Another site that I noticed as "Under Construction" in June 1996 is www.leary.com. And as of this writing, it is still under construction.

I answered this comment directly, but it deserves reiteration with wider visibility. If you don't #define UNICODE, you get ANSI by default. If you want to see characters beyond the boring 7-bit ASCII, make sure you are using a font that can display those characters. I am assuming a level of competence where issues like this go without s...

The site www.emr.fr has been "under construction" for over eight years. I noticed it in June 1996 and check back on it periodically. Still Under Construction. Another site that I noticed as "Under Construction" in June 1996 is www.leary.com. And as of this writing, it is still under construction.

I answered this comment directly, but it deserves reiteration with wider visibility. If you don't #define UNICODE, you get ANSI by default. If you want to see characters beyond the boring 7-bit ASCII, make sure you are using a font that can display those characters. I am assuming a level of competence where issues like this go without s...

It's the system DPI setting.

It's the system DPI setting.

Eric Lippert finds out what they are.

When writing documentation, one often has need to come up with a sample URL to illustrate some point or other. When you do, make sure the sample URL is under your control. I remember a Windows beta that used the sample URL http://www.xxxxx.com/ in a dialog box. You can imagine where that actually goes. This web site uses www.wallyworld.co...

Victorinox, the company authorized to make so-called Swiss Army merchandise, has run into a bit of a problem: Is there anything else you could possibly think of putting on a pocketknife for an outdoorsman? And even if you did, there's no room for it. The pocketknife has already reached the point where it's too unwieldy to carry around ...