♂ and ♀ characters

[nelo]

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.

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?