So, if you want "y" with umlaut, press Alt-0255. If you want hard space
press Alt-0160.
Does that work?
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: Thursday, May 03, 2001 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: ALT 255 - Win 95/Win NT
> 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
> >>
> >>
> >
>
