Stephen,
The ANSI vs ASCII issue and seeing it in Accessories...Character Map between
Terminal and Times Roman was very useful.
Thanks,
Brent
-----Original Message-----
From: ForenSys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, May 03, 2001 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: ALT 255 - Win 95/Win NT
>So, if you want "y" with umlaut, press Alt-0255. If you want hard space
>press Alt-0160.
>
>Does that work?
>
>Regards,.
>
>Stephen Markson
>ForenSys The Forensic Systems Group
>www.ForensicSystemsGroup.com
>416 482 2140
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Brent Skean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 9:46 AM
>Subject: Re: ALT 255 - Win 95/Win NT
>
>
>> The problem I am running into is that pressing Alt-255 in Win95 Browser
>> transmits an Alt-95, underscore character, not a blank or �.
>>
>> Where
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ForenSys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 8:25 PM
>> Subject: Re: ALT 255 - Win 95/Win NT
>>
>>
>> >Pressing Alt-255 transmits character number 255 in the ASCII character
>set
>> >which is a blank. Pressing Alt-0255 transmits character number 255 in
the
>> >ANSI character set which is the "y" with an umlaut. RBDos uses ASCII and
>> >RBWIN uses ANSI.
>> >
>> >So at the R> in RBwin, if you type SET V X TEXT = ' and then press
>Alt-152
>> >and another single quote, then you will see
>> >SET V X='�'
>> >If you then SET V i INT = (ICHAR(.x)) and type SHOW V I, then you will
>see
>> >255.
>> >
>> >Please note that what you see is also dependent on the font that your
are
>> >using for the display. In the browser you can choose Terminal font if
you
>> >want to see the ASCII characters. Virtually every other font uses ANSI.
>The
>> >Windows Character Map function (in Accessories) shows the character sets
>> for
>> >each font.
>> >
>> >Regards,
>> >
>> >Stephen Markson
>> >ForenSys The Forensic Systems Group
>> >www.ForensicSystemsGroup.com
>> >416 482 2140
>> >
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "Brent Skean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 12:20 PM
>> >Subject: ALT 255 - Win 95/Win NT
>> >
>> >
>> >> While not specific to RBASE, I've run across something that I would
>like
>> >to
>> >> verify.
>> >>
>> >> Under Win NT, the following occurs when keying in ALT 255 from:
>> >>
>> >> DOS: hard space
>> >> Notepad: hard space
>> >> Browser: hard space
>> >> RBDOS 4.5++: hard space
>> >> RBWIN 6.x: hard space
>> >>
>> >> ie, it all works as expected.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Under Win 95, the following occurs when keying in ALT 255 from:
>> >>
>> >> DOS: hard space
>> >> Notepad: _
>> >> Browser: _
>> >> RBDOS 4.5++: hard space
>> >> RBWIN 6.x: UNTESTED
>> >>
>> >> Note the oddity under Notepad and Browser. This seems to be an actual
>> ALT
>> >> 95, the underscore.
>> >>
>> >> When inserting an ALT 255 into an RBWIN 6.x database via an R:Tango
>form,
>> >a
>> >> Win 95 browser will insert an _ instead of a hard space.
>> >>
>> >> Sel all from table where field = '_' yields the inserted record.
>> >>
>> >> The same action from an NT browser inserts the hard space properly.
>> >>
>> >> This is not RBASE specific... go to www.yahoo.com and put in an ALT
255
>> in
>> >> the search box and I get an _.
>> >>
>> >> I am curious, do others see the same behavior; what about under
>> >> Win98/2000/ME?
>> >>
>> >> Brent Skean
>> >> Current Solutions
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
>
