The problem I am running into is that pressing Alt-255 in Win95 Browser
transmits an Alt-95, underscore character, not a blank or �.
Where
-----Original Message-----
From: ForenSys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: ALT 255 - Win 95/Win NT
>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
>>
>>
>
