steffen meier

Hi,

I am looking for a VBS script that would create folders and filenames using
unicode

For example:
c:\[euro-sign]
c:\[greek-omega-sign]
c:\[greek-omega-sign]\[greek-beta-sign]
c:\[greek-omega-sign]\[cyrylic\russian].doc

I was playing with vbs function "chr()"
chr(65) = "a"... but of course maxium that chr() does is chr(255)...

So how would could I create a folder containing [greek-omega-sign] ?
Or Euro-sign ?

thank you
Steffen

ekkehard.horner

Steffen Meier schrieb:


All VBScript strings are Unicode strings; use ChrW( <UnicodeCodePoint> )
to get characters > 255.

Dim oFS : Set oFS = CreateObject( "Scripting.FileSystemObject" )
Dim sOmega : sOmega = ".\" & ChrW( &H03A9 ) & ChrW( 937 )
If Not oFS.FolderExists( sOmega ) Then oFS.CreateFolder sOmega

paul randall

Hi, Ekkehard,
I don't play with Unicode much, but I have played a little with displaying
Unicode characters produced with the ChrW function. Various fonts fail to
display various characters properly. I imagine it gets kind of messy if,
for example, the font used in the explorer windows does not have glyphs for
the characters in the file names, and I don't fully understand how 'what you
see' is affected by changing the computer's locale. Do you have any
suggestions on how to get around this problem, or is there some font that
has the largest number of available glyphs that can be used?

I faintly recall that Office 2000 contained some font that had a very large
number of glyphs.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/or...382861033.aspx lists a
number of fonts that handle multiple languages.

-Paul Randall

anthony jones

Open character map applet and have a look. Most of the standard fonts on my
Win2000 box have Latin, Thai, Arabic, Hebrew and Greek characters.


--
Anthony Jones - MVP ASP/ASP.NET

ekkehard.horner

Paul Randall schrieb:


[...]
Hi Paul,

VBScript character/string data is Unicode (2 bytes); the current locale
affects how ANSI (1 byte) data are translated from/to Unicode when you
read from/write to a file (cf. format parameter of functions like
OpenTextFile). So if you need funny characters in your in or out data,
you should use Unicode files (format == Unicode == TriStateTrue). If
you work against a database, text fields should be adVarWChar.

Whether the data displays correctly depends on the agent. You can get
a Unicode DOS Box by starting cmd.exe with /U and specifying Lucida
Console; a browser should honor a "charset=utf-16"; applications like
Word or Excel may ask for confirmation but can handle such files.

My first choice of a font would be Arial Unicode (I'd expect that to
installed on every 'modern' windows computer). If some of my funny
characters display as small boxes I start my hunt for a font at these
web sites:

http://www.unicode.org/
http://www.unicode.org/onlinedat/resources.html

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/...sOverview.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/default.aspx


Regards

Ekkehard

paul randall

Thanks, Anthony

I haven't played with the character map applet for a long time. It does a
whole lot more than I remember. When I select a font, it changes what is
available in the Character set dropdown list. Sometimes I get a list of
specific charsets, like when I choose Arial font. Sometimes I get a grayed
out list, like when I choose Courier. Some fonts allow filtering to display
only certain groups of Unicode subranges in the font, like currency symbols
or latin characters or private use characters.

Do you know of a scripting way to find out how many Unicode characters any
particular font has glyphs for, or how completely it provides glyphs for any
particular Unicode subrange? The character map applet is a useful but
tedious way to find out what fonts can display the characters you think your
application will need to display. Maybe a font info object?

paul randall

Thanks, Ekkehard

Do you know of a scripting way to change the font of a command line (aka
DOS) box? Perhaps a registry entry that could be changed which would change
the font for the next command window opened?

-Paul Randall

ekkehard.horner

Paul Randall schrieb:

Perhaps "mode con" will do what you want to do:

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\eh
mode con cp /status

Status von Gerät CON:
---------------------
Codepage: 850


C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\eh
mode con cp select=437

Status von Gerät CON:
---------------------
Zeilen: 300
Spalten: 150
Wiederholungsrate: 31
Verzögerungszeit: 1
Codepage: 437


C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\eh
mode con cp /status

Status von Gerät CON:
---------------------
Codepage: 437


C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\eh

The Windows Help lists some codepage numbers:

437 USA
850 Multilingual (Latein I)
852 Slawisch (Latein II)
855 Kyrillisch (Russisch)
857 Türkisch
860 Portugiesisch
861 Isländisch
863 Französisch (Kanada)
865 Nordisch
866 Russisch
869 Modernes Griechisch

You'll have to test which of them are supported on your system.

Good luck!

Ekkehard

paul randall

Hi, Ekkehard

I have played with this 'Unicode DOS box' command line window and I've
verified that stuff displayed is actually Unicode. It is a shame that
Lucinda Console, containing only about 660 glyphs, is the only Unicode font
available in the command line window.

Thanks

-Paul Randall

ekkehard.horner

Paul Randall schrieb:

Hi Paul,

perhaps this will help (I didn't test):

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/UsingC...nsoleFont.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;Q247815
http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html

Regards

Ekkehard