Unicode symbols in my app not displaying on other workstations

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I copied a down arrow triangle symbol from the character map and added this
symbol to a menu Item on a menustrip on a form in my app. On saving the
project a dialogbox asked if I wanted to convert/save to unicode - or
something like that. I clicked yes and then deployed the app (using Click
Once). On a user's workstation I noticed that this triangle symbol was not
displaying and in its place was a little empty sqare (indicating the symbol
was not being rendered).

I have the same machine as everyone else in our office except that it is a
development machine. The symbol renders fine on my workstation. What can I
do so that this symbol (or any other unicode symbol) would render on the
other workstations?

Thanks,
Rich

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Have a look in what codeset your triangle exist and then check the languages
code set in the other computers.

Mostly something like

Settings -Countries -Advance and then the codes

Cor

"Rich" <Ri**@discussio ns.microsoft.co mschreef in bericht
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>I copied a down arrow triangle symbol from the character map and added this
symbol to a menu Item on a menustrip on a form in my app. On saving the
project a dialogbox asked if I wanted to convert/save to unicode - or
something like that. I clicked yes and then deployed the app (using Click
Once). On a user's workstation I noticed that this triangle symbol was
not
displaying and in its place was a little empty sqare (indicating the
symbol
was not being rendered).

I have the same machine as everyone else in our office except that it is a
development machine. The symbol renders fine on my workstation. What can
I
do so that this symbol (or any other unicode symbol) would render on the
other workstations?

Thanks,
Rich

[Bill McCarthy]

Do the other machines have a Unicode font set installed ? Compare Fonts.
"Rich" <Ri**@discussio ns.microsoft.co mwrote in message
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>I copied a down arrow triangle symbol from the character map and added this
symbol to a menu Item on a menustrip on a form in my app. On saving the
project a dialogbox asked if I wanted to convert/save to unicode - or
something like that. I clicked yes and then deployed the app (using Click
Once). On a user's workstation I noticed that this triangle symbol was
not
displaying and in its place was a little empty sqare (indicating the
symbol
was not being rendered).

I have the same machine as everyone else in our office except that it is a
development machine. The symbol renders fine on my workstation. What can
I
do so that this symbol (or any other unicode symbol) would render on the
other workstations?

Thanks,
Rich

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Rich" <Ri**@discussio ns.microsoft.co mschrieb:

>I copied a down arrow triangle symbol from the character map and added this
symbol to a menu Item on a menustrip on a form in my app. On saving the
project a dialogbox asked if I wanted to convert/save to unicode - or
something like that. I clicked yes and then deployed the app (using Click
Once). On a user's workstation I noticed that this triangle symbol was
not
displaying and in its place was a little empty sqare (indicating the
symbol
was not being rendered).

Most likely you are using a font which is not available in the same version
on the target machine. Which font are you using for the character not
displaying on the machine?

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