I need to cast an int, say 129 or any other extended character, to a
char and display it in a Memo or Edit component. When I do this I often get
a vertical bar which is not the ASCII character for the given number. I
notice in the system font that these are in fact vertical bars and I am
guessing that this is where the character representation is being retrieved
from.

    Can anyone tell me how to get the actual character representation for
display?

Thanks for any help.

This is not an IDE issue. This newsgroup section (.IDE) is for
questions relating to the IDE (the Editor, De{*word*81} etc) as the name
implies.

Your question would be best asked in either:

  .VCL.COMPONENTS.USING - if you are using VCL components
or
  .NATIVEAPI - if you are using the Windows API.

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