VBA MISSING character? Intermediate window: "? Cells(1,"A").Value => a? "

[makiwara]

Hi! I have characters which are recognized by Excel itself, however, when referring to them from the VBA editor something gets wrong.

For example if I write the expression of ? Cells(1,"A").Value into the Intermediate Window, I get "a?" so VBA can't recognize. (Latin characters)

Excel recognizes them applying a lot of font, for example Lucida Sans Unicode.

Do you have any idea, what to do? Thank you!

aʊ

eɪ

oʊ

ɔɪ

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[shg]

They're Unicode characters (e.g., the second character is lowercase upsilon). The VBE doesn't handle them, but VBA does in string variables. What are you trying to do?

 

[makiwara]

Shg, thank you for your reply!

I want to do some actions based on cell's value:
so
If left(cells(1,2).Value),1)=Cells(1,1).Value then 'CELLS(x,1) containing for example the characters:

aʊ

eɪ

oʊ

ɔɪ

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</tbody>

How can I make VBA understand this?

They're Unicode characters (e.g., the second character is lowercase upsilon). The VBE doesn't handle them, but VBA does in string variables. What are you trying to do?

 

[shg]

What happens when you try it? Show a specific example with code.