Characters in VBA appear as question marks

[Shukis7]

Hi,

I'm coping a code in VBA and the Greek characters are appearing as question marks.

This is the code that I'm pasting:

Sub Transaction_Catergory()
Dim lr As Long
lr = Cells.Find("*", , xlFormulas, , 1, 2).Row
With Range("AJ2:AJ" & lr)
.Formula = "=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(""Αναδ"",BF2)),""Bank Restructuring"",IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(""Αντιπ"",BF2)),""Antiparoxi"",""Open market""))"
.Value2 = .Value2
End With
End Sub

This is what I get in the module:

Sub Transaction_Catergory()
Dim lr As Long
lr = Cells.Find("*", , xlFormulas, , 1, 2).Row
With Range("AJ2:AJ" & lr)
.Formula = "=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(""??ad"",BF2)),""Bank Restructuring"",IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(""??t?p"",BF2)),""Antiparoxi"",""Open market""))"
.Value2 = .Value2
End With
End Sub

I changed both the font and the system locale, but it doesn't seem to work. Any ideas? I will appreciate your help.

Thank you!

 

[rlv01]

Looks like your PC/Excel install does not recognize the Greek character set. What is the ACP setting on your PC?

Sub GetACP()
    MsgBox "ACP (ANSI Code Page) setting on this PC is " & CreateObject("WScript.Shell").RegRead("HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage\ACP")
End Sub

 

[Domenic]

I believe it is VBA that doesn't support UNICODE characters. So I would suggest that instead of hard coding the value in your code that you store it somewhere in Excel. So, for example, store it in either a worksheet cell or defined name, and then in your code refer to it by cell or name.

 

[Shukis7]

Looks like your PC/Excel install does not recognize the Greek character set. What is the ACP setting on your PC?

Sub GetACP()
    MsgBox "ACP (ANSI Code Page) setting on this PC is " & CreateObject("WScript.Shell").RegRead("HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage\ACP")
End Sub

ACP (ANSI Code Page) setting on this PC is 65001. Does this recognizes the Greek character set? I'm using it in every other Microsoft application and didn't have any problems.

 

[Shukis7]

I believe it is VBA that doesn't support UNICODE characters. So I would suggest that instead of hard coding the value in your code that you store it somewhere in Excel. So, for example, store it in either a worksheet cell or defined name, and then in your code refer to it by cell or name.

Thank you that worked, however I would prefer to hard code the value in my code, but that doesn't seem to be working. Thanks for your help.

 

[rlv01]

ACP (ANSI Code Page) setting on this PC is 65001. Does this recognizes the Greek character set? I'm using it in every other Microsoft application and didn't have any problems.

No. 65001 is for Unicode UTF-8 character set. What you want is Windows-1253. Though it's not the only ACP supporting Greek characters

Code Page Identifiers - Win32 apps

The following table defines the available code page identifiers.

docs.microsoft.com

Usually this is accomplished by changing your regional settings in Windows setup.

 

[Shukis7]

No. 65001 is for Unicode UTF-8 character set. What you want is Windows-1253. Though it's not the only ACP supporting Greek characters

Code Page Identifiers - Win32 apps

The following table defines the available code page identifiers.

docs.microsoft.com

Usually this is accomplished by changing your regional settings in Windows setup.

Thank you, I will try that!