I recently converted a system from clipper to xbase...and in clipper, the 
user was able to hit ALT-237 to get the character ? to display. Now when 
they enter it, a lower case "f" appears. I've tried changing fonts, but its 
not helping. What do I need to do to correct this?

Thanks,

Scott

The character Im trying to create is the greek letter PHI....O with a line 
through it. Although it showed up correctly when I typed it in the message I 
was posting, it shows as a "?" in this document.

It also shows as a "?" in the post (note on Linux) this is a font
problem you need to find a font with the need character. In Windows you
have OEM and ANSI fonts. And yes the whole font thing in Windows is very
confusing.

Jim

Scott Krise wrote:
> The character Im trying to create is the greek letter PHI....O with a line 
> through it. Although it showed up correctly when I typed it in the message I 
> was posting, it shows as a "?" in this document. 
> 
>

I'm not sure if it is a font issue altogether. If I pick a particular 
font...say Courier New, and go into Word....it gives me the correct 
character I am looking for. If I then go into Wordpad using the same font, 
it gives me a different character...and if I go into my xbase application, I 
get a third character (none of them the same). There is something else 
coming into play here...and I don't understand what it is.

Scott,
I am sure it is a font issue! Word is Unicode-able, therefore you will see 
the letter there.
Wordpad obviously is not Unicode-able - therefore you will see a different 
letter there.
Your app has the wrong font, therefore you see again a different letter.

Regards,
Martin

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hi,

> I recently converted a system from clipper to xbase...and in clipper, the
> user was able to hit ALT-237 to get the character ? to display. Now when
> they enter it, a lower case "f" appears. I've tried changing fonts, but
its
> not helping. What do I need to do to correct this?

you have to change Codepage in Font to that OEM what you want to display.
e.g. CHR(213) shoud be the "Euro" Sign, but you do not have it in every
Codepage of the same Font.

greetings by OHR
Jimmy

> you have to change Codepage in Font to that OEM what you want to display.
> e.g. CHR(213) shoud be the "Euro" Sign, but you do not have it in every
> Codepage of the same Font.

Not sure what you mean. What is the codepage...and how do you change it?

hi,

> > you have to change Codepage in Font to that OEM what you want to
display.
> > e.g. CHR(213) shoud be the "Euro" Sign, but you do not have it in every
> > Codepage of the same Font.
>
> Not sure what you mean. What is the codepage...and how do you change it?

have a look at "public.xbase++.generic" from 25.01.06 "xBase hybrid mode
..."
at one of my Answer i attached "FONTDB.ZIP"

greetings by OHR
Jimmy