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Asked: 2026-06-15T09:29:20+00:00

I am trying to get an MFC Static Text control to display an ASCII

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I am trying to get an MFC Static Text control to display an ASCII Unicode character, specifically Omega (&#937). When i use just that the & doesn’t display and the rest of the text does. But if i set the ‘No Prefix’ Property of the Control to True, then it removes the & and everything after it.

Is this possible to do through a project setting or am i just inputting the string wrong?

Here is what I am using for a string: VDC Resistance (k&#937) → where I want &#937 to be the omega symbol.

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  1. Editorial Team

    First of all &#937 isn’t an ASCII character, it is a Unicode character: GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA.

    &#937 is the Html escape sequence for an omega, so a static text control doesn’t do translate Html escape sequences. If you are entering the text in C/C++ source then use the C escape sequence L"\u03A9". (3A9 in hex equals 937 decimal). This assumes that you are building a Unicode application in in ANSI it won’t work. I’m not sure how you would do it in that case.

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