hi jacques, I'll add some elements.Here in Luxemburg, we use french & german languages then I have some experience with "extended" characters.
To store the extended chars, if you choose codepage OEM862 or Windows-1255 , you work on single byte coding the both don't re-define chars 252,253,254 then no-prob with sv'ed, mv'ed data. Regarding sortorder, yes, use Right justification. For display, your "client" must works with a compatible codepage font and communication must be set to 8 bits. For printing, your printers must known the codepage font. If you choose unicode, you must turn Universe/NLS on. At basic runtime, UV works as unicode multi-byte (reread your basic code regarding chars manipulations) then be carefull to understand there is only one "language declaration" per file/device - when possible use "unicode". Problems start when you need display hebrew, french or russian chars on the same screen and a non-unicode client ! my two pence Manu "Jacques G." <jacque...@yahoo.com> a écrit : Hello, Has anyone here ever used Universe with a Hebrew character set ? Is it neccessary to to with a full 16-bit Unicode character set or are there older 8-bit character sets that are useable ? Also since text is apparently read from right to left (like in arabic) how are sorts affected ? (Must dictionnary elements be changed from left justified to right justified ?) Jacques G. _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
