Help Greek Character Mu( μ ) input to VISA write

[masla]

Today have the same problem with a LeCroy oscilloscope. It is not accepting a u for a μ.

I tried to solve this and select the μ in windows character map. But when I insert it in a string constant

it just shows a ?.

As next I changed the font in the string constant to Arial and then paste the μ inside.

But the pasted character is still "Application Font".

It was not possible for me to determine what font is "Application Font". All I could do is changing "Application Font" to Arial, but that's not my intention because I want to stay with current "Application Font"

I can't believe that LabView has such problems dealing with special characters. Every simple editor and even this web form is able to paste a μ

from character map. Regardless which font is used.

[GerdW]

Hi masla,

as has been written 2 years ago: Read the manual of your LeCroy to know exactly which char (aka ASCII code aka byte value) is expected by your device. Then simply use that code in your string you send to the device!

[masla]

LeCroy Support suggests to use 200e-6 instead of 200 μ.

That's a possible solution but not very straightforward, because 0.200 ms also works.

So the problem with μ is still unresolved...

[GerdW]

Hi masla,

you have a suggestion from LeCroy supprt to use scientific notation for your numbers. And you got my suggestion to read the manual carefully.

I guess the problem is solved by now?