Hi Mat,

I realize that readseq reads correctly. Then my question is how to read in in 
hex in order to read appropriate character and recognize it. 
For instance, in debug mode I can not see character H but H or I and program 
will not recognize it even though I specified in the code to search for this 
character.

Thanks,
Irina Lissok  

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mats Carlid
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:53 AM
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Subject: [!! SPAM] Re: [U2] RE:french characters

Hi Irina,

AFAIK readseq does not change any characters  ( at least for universe ).

But Your terminal(emulator) will - unless You specify the same character 
mapping
as the original data.

If on unix check that Your stty ( or PTERM if in uv ) settings speicify 
8-bit.

Also  whatever You do You'll always have a problem with
char(253) through char(255) that universe use as subvalue,value,field 
and item  marks.

If You don't know the encoding   try ISO-8859-1.


((   I have no experience with french data - only swedish wich have
other but fewer accented and umlaut letters.
   ))

HTH
-- mats


Irina Lissok skrev:
>  We have a problem with FRENCH characters.
>
> Using READSEQ to read the record from the file which contains FRENCH
> characters.
>
> It reads in  but French characters has been substituted with blanks or
> with legitimate English characters.
>
> When we are trying to load this data into xml file with WRITEBLK it puts
> initial French characters in it and xml file can not be opened.
>
> Our approach was to read data in and represent it in hex to be able to
> recognize French characters, but it won't work because as a result from
> READSEQ we've already had some kind of interpretation, not initial data.
>
>
>
> Is anyone have met the same problem and knows how to deal with it.
>
>
>
> Irina Lissok
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