Using special characters in strings

[ulillillia]

Strings often use the characters from 0x00 to 0x7F. Short of using constant chars and include strings, is there a better way? %c and using a number didn't work (I think is referencing the memory address at 0x00000080 instead of a value).

char SampleString[100];

const char SpecialChar80[2] = { 0x80, 0x00 }; // an alternative - null included

sprintf(SampleString, "Special %c character!", 0x80); // doesn't work
sprintf(SampleString, "Special %s characters!", SpecialChar80); // is there a more direct way?

I know the first method doesn't work - I've tried it. The second method is a bit tedious, rather indirect - is there a better, more direct way than this, for setting an actual character, like setting 0x6E to get a lower case "n"?

[Ronix]

Something like:

char sample_str[] = "Special \x80 character!";

Although your first method should work just as fine.

[ulillillia]

Ah, it is working - I have a bug in my display - an array is going out of bounds in the reverse direction. CharID[-121] will almost always cause problems. It's because I'm using a signed char when it's supposed to be unsigned. That's why it wasn't working. Thanks though.