Re: Use a character from another codepage

2010-01-26 Thread Jaime Vasquez
Hi, I don't think you can do that in Windows, but try with cpconvert: Cpconvert(1252,437,Chr(255)) Greetings Graham Trott wrote: > Would like to use the block character from codepage 437 without changing > codepages chr(219)=? and chr(255)= blank space > > VFP9 uses codepage 1252. I am n

Re: Use a character from another codepage

2010-01-26 Thread Lew
Characters appear in fonts, not codepages. The relationship is somewhat more complicated than we assume. -Original Message- From: Paul Hill Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:50:53 To: Subject: Re: Use a character from another codepage On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Graham Trott wrote

Re: Use a character from another codepage

2010-01-26 Thread Dan Olsson
At 2010-01-25 19:44, Graham Trott wrote: >I would just like to create a simple progress bar that does not use >any screen real estate. I have used a routine for many years that resembles FP:s internal progress bar showing progress during sql-selects. I have propably "stolen" it somewhere, can't

Re: Use a character from another codepage

2010-01-25 Thread Paul Hill
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Graham Trott wrote: > Would like to use the block character from codepage 437 without changing > codepages chr(219)=? and chr(255)= blank space > > VFP9 uses codepage 1252. 1252 is the codepage for Western European languages. In Russia VFP would use 1251. > I a

Use a character from another codepage

2010-01-25 Thread Graham Trott
Would like to use the block character from codepage 437 without changing codepages chr(219)=? and chr(255)= blank space VFP9 uses codepage 1252. I am not sure what the implications would be of changing the codepage in existing applications. I would just like to create a simple progress bar t