Dan, Looks like the character comes from a different alphabet and, while it looks almost identical, it really is not.
You can highlight the character in question, copy it and then paste it into a string replacement function and globally change all the invalid the characters to the real apostrophe character. This is now a common approach used by scammers to present what looks like a valid web site link only to be directed to a scam website. Here is an article that gives more details. Why do they put cyrillic letters in phishing email? - Information Security Stack Exchange <https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/188623/why-do-they-put-cyrilli c-letters-in-phishing-email> A few weeks ago, Bank of America included a similar write up in one of their weekly emails to customers. Javier, Javier Valencia, PE 14315 S Twilight Ln Olathe, KS 66062 913-915-3137 From: 'Dan Goldberg' via RBASE-L <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2024 2:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: [RBASE-L] - mystery character Thx it is some strange apostrophe that is not on my keyboard. Gunna see if I can just remove it from the fields. Dan Goldberg From: 'Karen Tellef' via RBASE-L <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2024 10:46 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [RBASE-L] - mystery character Dan: I remember having to do this once. Bring one of the records up on the edit form, where you see the "real" character". Carefully copy just the one character. Then do a SRPL on that column. For the first value, paste in what you copied, and replace it with a normal apostrophe Karen On Wednesday, January 17, 2024 at 12:38:23 PM CST, Bruce Chitiea <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Dan: Happy-at-the-limit-New-Year: I presume that the data displayed in the Parts Master - View Mode is pulled directly from its source table, and that the " ' " character is otherwise your default for encapsulating text strings within code. I've seen this sort of weird formatting show up when pulling HTML data into non-HTML text columns. The alpha-numerics display correctly, but punctuations look look like something from the Planet Zog style manual. Guessing that what's happening here is similar: a formatting mis-match resulting from a search routine which can't handle an apostrophe embedded within an expected result. I'd look to see that the search code can handle an apostrophe orphaned within a returned text string. Can you use a different character (e.g. a " - ") in its place, and see what happens? Best, Bruce Bruce A. Chitiea SafeSectors, Inc. 1142 S Diamond Bar Blvd # 442 Diamond Bar CA 91765-2203 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> (909) 238-9012 m ------ Original Message ------ >From "'Dan Goldberg' via RBASE-L" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > To "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> " <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Date 1/17/2024 7:34:07 AM Subject [RBASE-L] - mystery character I have a character that looks ok in db edits but not in enhanced db grids. I have played with the fonts thinking the font does not like the character but no help. Anyone ran across this before? TIA Dan Goldberg -- For group guidelines, visit http://www.rbase.com/support/usersgroup_guidelines.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . 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