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[JerrySykes]

My project is a simple terminal VB6 program (based on the sample VBTerm).

I am using a RichTextBox to display received characters from a COM port.
The problem is with characters in the range 128 to 255.
They are not displayed as I'd expect.
I want these characters to be in codepage 437 (i.e. box drawing and block characters).
I have tried using Terminal and Arial Unicode MS fonts, I have even tried playing with
the \ansicpg control word, \'xx and \uN special characters.

I am competely lost !!
Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks, VB newbie[/b]

[RoofRabbit]

Make sure your serial connection is for 8 bits and not 7 bits. The 7 bit connections won't give you anything above 127.
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[JerrySykes]

I am using the RichTextBox so I can use a different font color for received text.
I also want to use the Terminal font.
The problem is the Terminal font is an OEM font and has no Unicode code points.
I think I'm fighting a loosing battle with this one.

Question: If I use a Unicode monospaced font like Lucida Console then all
I have to do is convert the bytes received into Unicode and let VB do the rest?

How can I do this conversion?

Incidently, if I change
\fcharset255 Terminal
in the RTF font table to
\fcharset254 Terminal
then I can see the chars 128 to 255 but in the Arial font
and not the Terminal font.

All this RTF header stuff is a nightmare.

Please help