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 = 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
