♂ and ♀ characters

Not sure if this the correct place or not, but since I am making the program in C#, I guess it worth a shot asking here.

I made a program a few weeks back. It used the ♂ and ♀ characters in a combo box. It displayed them perfectly fine. It also was able to display Japanese text when it was inserted in to a text box. Now I am working on anther program and it also uses the ♂ and ♀ characters as well, but the are showing up as tiny vertical rectangles. I went back and opened my old program and it is doing the same thing. I even tested Japanese test and it shows the same rectangles. I don't think I messed with any kind of settings or something, does anyone know how to make it display the the ♂ and ♀ characters again?

It is matter of font. You need to set appropriate font containing desired glyphs for the combo.

Did you save the file with the proper Encoding ¿

Well the thing is my older program displayed the characters before, and not now. It is the same exe, I did not recompile it.

I also noticed that in applocal, the Asian character sets near the end of the list are all squares, they used to also display the correct characters.

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Originally Posted by KazoWAR

Well the thing is my older program displayed the characters before, and not now. It is the same exe, I did not recompile it.

I also noticed that in applocal, the Asian character sets near the end of the list are all squares, they used to also display the correct characters.

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I get you. I think Boudino has a point though. Have things changed in your system since the last time your existing application was working? Things like Windows update or updates to MS Word basically anything that could affect the font. Have you or anyone else changed any 'Regional and Language Options' settings? What operating system are you using by the way? Also what version of the .NET framework are you using?

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Originally Posted by nelo

I get you. I think Boudino has a point though. Have things changed in your system since the last time your existing application was working? Things like Windows update or updates to MS Word basically anything that could affect the font. Have you or anyone else changed any 'Regional and Language Options' settings? What operating system are you using by the way? Also what version of the .NET framework are you using?

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After my PC restarted, I noticed it working again. =/