Thank you, Geert, I hadn't realized that some of our production pages were appearing incorrectly on some browsers until receiving this information. They are fixed now, by adding in the doctype and charset declarations.
Thanks again and best wishes, Bruce On May 26, 2010, at 2:06 AM, [email protected] wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
