De nada, Tony! :)

On Wed, 26 May 2010 23:47:52 +0200, Tony Perez <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hola Geert,
> Muchas gracias, amigo ... for the /w switch tip. It's working great.
> Can't thank you enough!!!
> 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 = &#225;
>>> é = &#233;
>>> í = &#237;
>>> ó = &#243;
>>> 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
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