Does CPCONVERT() do anything for you? Paul Newton wrote: > Paul > > Tx for the reply. I should have mentioned that I'm using VFP9 (hence > the edited subject) > > I'm using FF and am viewing a page with the French word Cote (o > circumflex). It displays correctly in the browser with any of the > following (chosen from View...Character encoding) - Western > (ISO-8859-1), Western (ISO-8859-15), English (US-ASCII), Western > (Windows 1252). What I can't do is copy and paste this word into a > field in the browse window and have it display correctly. > > Paul Hill wrote: >> 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 >> > In this case yes - o circumflex is ACSII 244 in that table. >> 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'. >> > So should I set the code page for the table to Windows 1252 (perhaps > before pasting the test) ? > > Thanks > > [excessive quoting removed by server]
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