Display a degree symbol correctly in VB.NET label

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I have a txt file containing label values to be displayed in Windows.Forms.Label objects. One of these strings contains a degree symbol (°). That symbol is not displayed correctly in the label text. In examining the .txt file, I can see that the ASCII value of the byte in question is 0xB0.

What I have tried:

I have tried various different fonts for the label, and various character encodings when reading in the txt file.

Posted 4-Apr-23 11:47am

moranrp

Updated 5-Apr-23 7:51am

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[no name] 4-Apr-23 23:58pm

The Unicode is 0x00B0; so, it seems you should be using UTF-8 (and not ascii as you're implying).

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raddevus · Answer 1 · 2023-04-05T05:16:00

Solution 3

This will help you understand how to do that: Chr function (Visual Basic for Applications) | Microsoft Learn[^]

Use the Chr function and the ascii value for degree symbol:

VB

DegreeChar = Chr(176)

Posted 5-Apr-23 5:16am

raddevus