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HELP! Data Entry/Printing using French Characters (AREV Specific)

At 19 AUG 1999 01:45:56PM Barbara Jenkins wrote:

AREV Specific

I modify an Arev application so that data entry screens accept French as well as English. Also need to print reports that will contain both French and English. I would appreciate any ideas !

At 19 AUG 1999 02:31PM [email protected] onmouseover=window.status=why not click here to send me email?;return(true)", [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com" onMouseOver=window.status=Why not click here to visit our web site?';return(true)]Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:

What do you perceive the problems to be? We routinely produce multi-lingual apps in AREV and OI. The main problem is getting printouts to show the correct characters if using Windows printing from DOS (they changed the code tables from "OEM to ANSI"). But this usually just involves a symbolic to swap stuff around.

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At 19 AUG 1999 02:46PM KGilfilen wrote:

Barbara,

What other characters do you need to enter? I can remember several accents from my school days, such as è, é and ê. These are ascii characters 232, 233 and 234, respectively. How do users deal with these in other situations? By hitting Alt-232? Or does your system allow different languages?

Otherwise, I cannot imagine any processing that would be affected by the language the users use. Reports should spit out whatever the users put in.

Can you think of any specific problematic situations?

Kenny

At 19 AUG 1999 05:02PM Cyber Police wrote:

At 19 AUG 1999 11:41PM Jim Eagan - FIRM Software wrote:

BULL - occupy your time with something that is of use to the community. Mr. McAuley's response was not a violation - it was an attempt to assist. More efforts need to be directed at helping and

FAR fewer should be directed at flaming.

At 20 AUG 1999 01:33AM Steve Smith wrote:

If you need special characters, I have mentioned a utility called fontedit.com from PC magazine here before. It lets you repaint any ASCII character's screen depiction.

Say you need a cidilla. You can hold down ALT and then type 135 to get ç. It may depend on your browser's character set as to what you see.

Printing might be a hassle, but on-screen this will work just fine. You can use ICONVs and OCONVs in symbolics to remap the characters for printing the equivalents, e.g. ç appears as c

Steve

At 20 AUG 1999 01:40AM Steve Smith wrote:

Dear Mr. Cyber-policeperson,

ANOTHER WISECRACK COMMENT LIKE THAT AND I'M GOING TO REALLY GET UPSET

Yours respectfully,

Steve

At 20 AUG 1999 04:49AM [email protected] onmouseover=window.status=why not click here to send me email?;return(true)", [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com" onMouseOver=window.status=Why not click here to visit our web site?';return(true)]Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:

I am genuinely touched by these responses but personally have no problems with being teased. It might be an English thing but we have a long tradition of poking fun at those we respect …

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