"&" Symbol in FTVIEW Sudio Alarm

Sham

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Hi all,

I am trying to display "&" symbol in one of alarm messages, but the alarm banner is displaying a special character instead of "&". Any solutions please? Its urgent.

for example I am trying to display "I&L", but its being displayed as "I L", where that L is a special one (like special Ä).
 
Sham said:
That's exactly right!! I believe its because of VBA, right? Thanks man! Just found it by hit n trial before you commented.
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it's standard escape syntax: some uncommon character like backslash (\) is used as an "escape" character, so \n is interpreted as a single character i.e. newline (linefeed or ASCII code 10), \r is carriage routine, \t is tab, etc. so that leaves the problem of how to display the escape sequence initiator. so when you said the & did not show up but the L was modified, that was the clue. we have to remember that the folks writing the software we use are not likely to be process and control engineers, and the have the wooden bridge syndrome.
 
drbitboy said:
it's standard escape syntax: some uncommon character like backslash (\) is used as an "escape" character, so \n is interpreted as a single character i.e. newline (linefeed or ASCII code 10), \r is carriage routine, \t is tab, etc. so that leaves the problem of how to display the escape sequence initiator. so when you said the & did not show up but the L was modified, that was the clue. we have to remember that the folks writing the software we use are not likely to be process and control engineers, and the have the wooden bridge syndrome.
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(Y) Agreed!
 

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