Geert, You are right, I somehow managed to miss the importance of that email exchange. I have made the change as you described, problem solved. Thank you.
Victor On 22/08/2010 16:52, [email protected] wrote: > Hi Victor, > > We've been discussing this problem on the mailing list last week with > Brian Hancock. > > For the time being, the only solution seems to be to open the DP26YI.EXE > (or DP26YU.EXE, according to the version you want to use) with a > HEX-editor, to replace the string "'" in line 251d0 by "'" and > to save the modified file under a new name... > > However, we hope Lew can release this mod as an *official* change, so that > no hacked versions op DP need to exist ! > > Kind regards, > Geert De Baets > mailto:[email protected] > > > > On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:21:59 +0200, Victor Warner<[email protected]> wrote: >> I am having a problem sending a report to a text file for use as html. >> I start DP (using Windows 7 Professional and Tame 6 rc 15) with the >> following command line: >> G:\dp\dp.exe e:\dbs\french\grammer\grammer /P=1 /W >> For fields in the report I use the ;;W suffix. >> When I enter the ' character, the result is a' such as "a >> l'extèrieur". Therefore it cannot be avoided (ie if it was a quote mark, >> by the use of "). >> However, it does not get recognised in browsers. Doing a google search >> seems to confirm this is a problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apos; >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2083754/why-shouldnt-apos-be-used-to-escape-single-quotes, >> etc) >> It is easy enough to do a search and replace for this, but is it >> possible to avoid the problem altogether in DataPerfect? >> Help with this would be greatly appreciated. >> Victor Warner. > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
