Pressing Alt-255 transmits character number 255 in the ASCII character set
which is a blank. Pressing Alt-0255 transmits character number 255 in the
ANSI character set which is the "y" with an umlaut. RBDos uses ASCII and
RBWIN uses ANSI.
So at the R> in RBwin, if you type SET V X TEXT = ' and then press Alt-152
and another single quote, then you will see
SET V X='�'
If you then SET V i INT = (ICHAR(.x)) and type SHOW V I, then you will see
255.
Please note that what you see is also dependent on the font that your are
using for the display. In the browser you can choose Terminal font if you
want to see the ASCII characters. Virtually every other font uses ANSI. The
Windows Character Map function (in Accessories) shows the character sets for
each font.
Regards,
Stephen Markson
ForenSys The Forensic Systems Group
www.ForensicSystemsGroup.com
416 482 2140
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brent Skean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 12:20 PM
Subject: ALT 255 - Win 95/Win NT
> While not specific to RBASE, I've run across something that I would like
to
> verify.
>
> Under Win NT, the following occurs when keying in ALT 255 from:
>
> DOS: hard space
> Notepad: hard space
> Browser: hard space
> RBDOS 4.5++: hard space
> RBWIN 6.x: hard space
>
> ie, it all works as expected.
>
>
> Under Win 95, the following occurs when keying in ALT 255 from:
>
> DOS: hard space
> Notepad: _
> Browser: _
> RBDOS 4.5++: hard space
> RBWIN 6.x: UNTESTED
>
> Note the oddity under Notepad and Browser. This seems to be an actual ALT
> 95, the underscore.
>
> When inserting an ALT 255 into an RBWIN 6.x database via an R:Tango form,
a
> Win 95 browser will insert an _ instead of a hard space.
>
> Sel all from table where field = '_' yields the inserted record.
>
> The same action from an NT browser inserts the hard space properly.
>
> This is not RBASE specific... go to www.yahoo.com and put in an ALT 255 in
> the search box and I get an _.
>
> I am curious, do others see the same behavior; what about under
> Win98/2000/ME?
>
> Brent Skean
> Current Solutions
>
>
