Hi all, Brian is right:
1: *in any case*, the /W startup switch is needed to translate DOS-text into Latin 1 2: the ;;W report format should *not* be used for alphanumeric fields (A20). In fact, *nothing* is printed *at all* on such fields when using a ;;W format! 3: the ;;W report format only works with memo-fields (A20A3)... Regards, Geert. On Fri, 28 May 2010 22:50:01 +0200, Brian Hancock <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I thought the the ;;W and /W switch were complimentary but different in > their effect. > > My understanding is that the startup switch /W is used to translate > report characters into the standard ISO Latin 1 web font, and the ;;W > print mode indicator is used to expand the 5 standard XML entities eg< > into < and to convert bold and underlined text in memo fieldsinto > html <b> and <u> elements. > > I have no experience with foreign language charsets, so it has never > been an issue for me. > > Regards > Brian > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Conrad > Sent: Saturday, 29 May 2010 2:04 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Printing accented letters & > othercharacterscorrectlyin HTML pages. > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
