visual studio 2008 - How can I add the French trademark symbol (MD)?

Question

I have a report that needs to be output in either English or French (based on a field value).

I have copied the text from the Word document to the SSRS package, and all French characters show as they should except MD (marque déposée). This should show similar to superscript "MD", but it shows as normal script "MD".

Is there a library of French symbols that I can add, or is there a way to format it so that it "appears" right?

I have tried:

• adding MD to a separate textbox and formatting it so it looks right, and having the 2 textboxes overlap, but when printed the second textbox relocates to below the first on the page.
• printing the French paragraph as an image, but it does not appear as clear as the printed English page.

Answer 1

For situations like this unicode superscript characters can come in handy. I copied the unicode for the letters MD from the link into the SSRS report and it worked no problem.

Example:

• MD = ??
• TM = ??

Unicode:

• M - 7481 - http://unicodelookup.com/#7481/1
• D - 7472 - http://unicodelookup.com/#7472/1
• T - 7488 - http://unicodelookup.com/#7488/1