yeah, moving from dos to windows we lost a lot of characters since alot of them changed from displayable characters to undisplayable control characters. They have been trying to solve this with unicode, which uses 2 bytes instead of 1, so there are 65,536 characters instead of 256 but unicode is slow to catch on so who knows how long before its something main stream that can be relied on.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gunnar Ekblad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 7:34 AM Subject: RE: International charcters Ops! The national character did not look to good on the bill gates explorer web browser but anyhow the problem is real! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-rbase-l@;sonetmail.com] Sent: den 9 november 2002 15:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: R:DCC Staff Subject: International charcters As an addition to the discussion of Currency format A,B,C from an international point of view consider this: In Sweden we have åäöÅÄÖ other countries have other characters. Bill Gates caused a lot trouble going from Dos to windows. In a lot of programs I have this line of codes so I can stay in dos but utilise ODBC for excel queries set case on set v vdos to '†„Ž”™ åÅäÄöÖ' *(† å) set v v1d to (char(134));set v v1w to (char(229)) *( Å) set v v2d to (char(143));set v v2w to (char(197)) *(„ ä) set v v3d to (char(132));set v v3w to (char(228)) *(Ž Ä) set v v4d to (char(142));set v v4w to (char(196)) *(” ö) set v v5d to (char(148));set v v5w to (char(246)) *(™ Ö) set v v6d to (char(153));set v v6w to (char(214)) set v vwin to (srpl(.vdos,.v1d,.v1w,0));set v vwin to (srpl(.vwin,.v2d,.v2w,0)) set v vwin to (srpl(.vwin,.v3d,.v3w,0));set v vwin to (srpl(.vwin,.v4d,.v4w,0)) set v vwin to (srpl(.vwin,.v5d,.v5w,0));set v vwin to (srpl(.vwin,.v6d,.v6w,0)) write .vdos ' ' .vwin set case off it converts from DOS to Windows character set Please help me to encourage RDCC to replace it with a function like ‘set v vwin to (swin(.vdos))’ (and at the same time set v vdos to (sdos(.vwin)) should it ever be required to go from windows character set to dos (and I have such a Case)) . I know we should all be mowing to windows but old habits die hard and in DOS I can focus on the business problem, when I am in windows I must focus to much on appearance. But slowly slowly even I make the move but yet for a time we live in both dos world and windows world Kontema IT AB Gunnar Ekblad Hästholmsvägen 32 131 30 NACKA Tel +46 8 814 59 00 Mobil +46 705455038 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
