Hello Geert, Thanks for chiming in.
Looks like the /w switch is the key. I'll try that and the header text later today and report outcome. All the best, Tony -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Printing accented letters & othercharacterscorrectly in HTML pages. Olà Tony! I am using a lot of html-reports in French. They all run perfect on IE, Opera, Firefox, Safari and Chrome, showing the proper french accents. Note that I use no html character recoding scheme at all! However, instead of the using the ;;W format for *fields*, I use the general /W *startup* switch in the program PIF. Example: C:\DP\DP.EXE your-application /W Furthermore, my reports start with the following header (angle brackets replaced by square brackets [) : [!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"] [HTML] [HEAD] [META HTTP-EQUIV="content-type" CONTENT="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"] If you would like me to send you a test sample of a DP-generated html file, please contact me directly per mail. Best regards, Geert. On Wed, 26 May 2010 06:27:25 +0200, Tony Perez <[email protected]> wrote: > Hola Bruce, > I have entered the text meta ... " surrounded by angle brackets in the > FPH of the report. Ran the report. It's still failing. > Should consecutive field formats be entered as ;;T;;W or ;;TW? > I am going to check your other message, test it and report. > All the best, > Tony > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Conrad > Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 6:17 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Printing accented letters & > othercharacterscorrectly in HTML pages. > > Hi Tony, > > Try adding this line as the first line in the "head" section. Put > angle brackets around it. I omit them here as some email clients would > interpret them and not display the line. > > meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" > > This tells the browser that your characters are in the ISO-Latin-1 > character set (whose official name is ISO-8859-1). My safari browser > (on an iMac) just assumed this, and IE and Firefox on my Windows XP > laptop assumed it as well, but Firefox on the iMac did not. Putting in > that meta tag solved the problem. > > Best wishes, > Bruce > > On May 25, 2010, at 3:51 PM, Tony Perez wrote: > >> Hi Bruce, >> >> Thanks for chiming in. I have tried that and am failing. >> >> At first I thought it might be my browser. I recently changed to >> Google Chrome. I opened the file in IE and failed also. >> >> Is there something else that I need to do? >> >> I have looked at some old reports where we used the >> >> á = á >> é = é >> í = í >> ó = ó >> ú = >> ñ = >> Ñ = >> ¿ = >> ½ = >> ¼ = >> >> scheme to generate reports in Spanish. >> >> Will keep plugging at it and report results as soon as I have them. >> >> All the best, >> Tony >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Conrad >> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 6:24 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Printing accented letters & other >> characterscorrectly in HTML pages. >> >> Hi Tony, >> >> When selecting the field containing these characters in a report, >> format using the print indicator ;;W. >> >> This translates from the DOS character set into the ISO-Latin-1 >> character set commonly used in browsers. >> >> Best wishes, >> Bruce >> >> On May 23, 2010, at 11:42 PM, Tony Perez wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> Greetings from a cold Northern California. >>> >>> I have mapped DP keystrokes to produce accented letters and other >>> characters in a DP app. >>> >>> e.g. alt-n to render "ñ"; alt-a to render "á"; alt-h to render "½" >>> ... >>> >>> What do I need to add to the report so the appropriate characters >>> appear on a live internet browser instead of some junk? >>> >>> I look forward to your thoughts/comments. >>> >>> All the best, >>> Tony >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Dataperf mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dataperf mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 8.5.437 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2891 - Release Date: >> 05/25/10 >> 06:26:00 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dataperf mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.437 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2895 - Release Date: > 05/25/10 06:26:00 > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf -- Vriendelijke groeten, Geert De Baets mailto:[email protected] Web: http://www.debaets.be Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf No virus found in this incoming message. 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