Thanks Polychronis I will do a little investigation in stored procedures. //Gunnar -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-rbase-l@;sonetmail.com] Sent: den 11 november 2002 09:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: International charcters
Dearest Gunnar, correct me if my understanding is wrong, but I think you can make your own function as a stored procedure, with the late versions of R:base. I think it's impossible for RBTI to make a function for every language, a subject that has to do with the operating system. For this reason from times of first windows versions, we had conversion utilities together with the operating system, from our local distributors. However I see the currency format independence of delimit char as a different subject, that could add a lot to the Rbase's 'international profile', something that nowadays is default at the OS level. But I understand that everything has to pass from cost and how many people will use it. That is why I made my request to RBTI, test the undocumented feature of convention A and wait. Greetings, Polychronis T. Kontos Athens, Greece -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-rbase-l@;sonetmail.com] Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 4:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: R:DCC Staff Subject: International charcters As an addition to the discussion of Currency format A,B,C from an international point of view consider this: In Sweden we have åäöÅÄÖ other countries have other characters. Bill Gates caused a lot trouble going from Dos to windows. In a lot of programs I have this line of codes so I can stay in dos but utilise ODBC for excel queries set case on set v vdos to '†„Ž”™ åÅäÄöÖ' *(† å) set v v1d to (char(134));set v v1w to (char(229)) *( Å) set v v2d to (char(143));set v v2w to (char(197)) *(„ ä) set v v3d to (char(132));set v v3w to (char(228)) *(Ž Ä) set v v4d to (char(142));set v v4w to (char(196)) *(” ö) set v v5d to (char(148));set v v5w to (char(246)) *(™ Ö) set v v6d to (char(153));set v v6w to (char(214)) set v vwin to (srpl(.vdos,.v1d,.v1w,0));set v vwin to (srpl(.vwin,.v2d,.v2w,0)) set v vwin to (srpl(.vwin,.v3d,.v3w,0));set v vwin to (srpl(.vwin,.v4d,.v4w,0)) set v vwin to (srpl(.vwin,.v5d,.v5w,0));set v vwin to (srpl(.vwin,.v6d,.v6w,0)) write .vdos ' ' .vwin set case off it converts from DOS to Windows character set Please help me to encourage RDCC to replace it with a function like ‘set v vwin to (swin(.vdos))’ (and at the same time set v vdos to (sdos(.vwin)) should it ever be required to go from windows character set to dos (and I have such a Case)) . I know we should all be mowing to windows but old habits die hard and in DOS I can focus on the business problem, when I am in windows I must focus to much on appearance. But slowly slowly even I make the move but yet for a time we live in both dos world and windows world Kontema IT AB Gunnar Ekblad Hästholmsvägen 32 131 30 NACKA Tel +46 8 814 59 00 Mobil +46 705455038 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
