How to display symbols in text boxs

hi im working on a story line that involves the character along his journey decrypting a message.
i want to use a runic script.

is there anyway of displaying that in a text box?

i assume it involves a script

if someone would point me in the right direction that would be amazing

thanks in advance

try changing the window's font on the fly.
if it works, you can make your own font file with whatever symbols you want, without changing the standard font itself, so you can go back and forth at will.
displaying the symbols on the message box would be no different to writing anything.

@God_of_lou
can you conform if you're using VX or VX Ace?
You'll need a message script with the option of changing the font in text windows of the game. There are such scripts, but I only know the ones for VXA. You might search for modern algebra's scripts - If I remember correctly the "advanced text system" is available for both VX and VXA, although the VX-variant is older and not as easy to use as the VXA-version.

just vx at the moment although i am planning on upgrading to mv shortly.

Either you should stick with VX until your current game project is finished, or go MV before you start it.
There is no "upgrading" your projects, those are two different programs and you can't transfer a project between them.

There are some conversion options, but they are limited and all scripts are incompatible.

ah okay. well trust me my project is in its infancy, i only made a start yesterday so learning a new game engine and recreating what i have wouldnt be that hard i would have thought. i will scour the net later for a script then. if i cant find one its no big deal, ill just convert the part i want in runic to a text shift algorithim :)