On 5/25/07, Paul Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I need a quick heads-up on getting accented letters (acute, grave, > circumflex, umlaut) etc to appear properly in a browse window. I have > pasted some text (from a web page) into a field in a table in a browse > window and it is not appearing properly. Do I need to set one or more > of (i) code page, (ii) font, (iii) script ? I have tried several > options without success ...
Are these characters available in your Windows ANSI codepage? I guess you're using Windows 1252 (Western European). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252 When pasting text from a Unicode application (like a browser) Windows will try to convert the Unicode characters using the current ANSI codepage. If your codepage does not support a particular character it will be converted into something else. e.g. 'a' with an umlaut will be converted into a plain 'a'. I've been having fun with codepages recently! On a related note I found this tool today: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/apploc.mspx "The AppLocale utility allows users to run a legacy application without changing to the code-page/system locale needed by that particular application. AppLocale emulates the code-page required by that legacy application without changing the machine's system locale. " Very handy. When testing different languages here and I needed to reboot each time I made a change. VirtualPC helped but I still needed to reboot the virtual machine. -- Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
