how to add ascii character in listview?

Question

I want to add ascii char in my listview. Here is my code:

ListViewItem item = new ListViewItem();
item.Text = Convert.ToString(count);
item.SubItems.Add(imgList.imgName.Substring(0, imgList.imgName.Length - 3));
item.SubItems.Add(Convert.ToString(imgList.score));
if (Util.FNameExtraction(addImage.FileName).Substring(0, 5) == imgList.imgName.Substring(0, 5))
{
    // ASCII should place
}

LvResultList.Items.Add(item);

I tried several types but could not find any solution.

Here is what i tried:

item.Text = Convert.ToString(char(195)) ;
item.Text = 195;
item.Text = 195.ToString();
item.SubItems.Add(195);
item.SubItems.Add(Convert.ToString(char(195));
item.SubItems.Add(195.ToString());

But all my attempts failed. Could you give me an idea about how to add ASCII here?

Answer 1

195 is not in the ASCII range. Unfortunately there are many sites around which show "ASCII tables" containing characters over 127. These are often called "extended ASCII" - often with a false implication that there's only one such encoding. .NET uses Unicode - and each char is a UTF-16 code unit. So (char) 195 is actually U+00C3, which is a "Latin capital A with a tilde".

The character you were looking at wasn't even a tick - it was a square root sign.

For an actual tick, I suggest you want U+2713, which you'd add like this:

item.SubItems.Add = "\u2713";

Of course, that relies on the font you're using supporting that character.