Special Characters on MAC

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 8/5/05 2:43 PM, "Wilk, Steven" <SWILK at ags.com> wrote:

Hi Wilk,

> Ruslan, 

> the problem has been solved.

Excellent! 

> First thanks for all your help. I created a small database on the PC and then
> copied over to the Mac. Using a simple Director application I displayed the
> records. All of the characters showed the same on the PC and Mac, this
> eliminated the database from the cause of my issue.
> 
> Now let me explain how we are using the data from the database.
> 
> Our Director application is using three Xtras: Valentia, Webviewer, and
> TreeView. 

> We use web pages to display our search screens these screens pass search
> criteria to the application for use in SQL to go against the Valentia
> database. 

> The data that comes out of the query is then used to build a web page using
> FileIO.
> 
> The web page is then displayed using WebViewer, this is where the difference
> in the characters showed them self's.

> The problem there for was in the higher ANSI characters for instead
> ö is 154 on the Mac and 246 on the PC, but when the Mac displayed the web
> page it would use character 154 from the PC which is š. So I built a list to
> replace the characters on the Mac with the PC numerical representation for
> example 154 becomes &#246;.

I see,

On the other hand this is issue of encoding it seems.

Each web Browser have menu VIEW -> Encodings ...
And user can choose a correct one.

    Cyrilic mac
    Cyrillic win 

For example.


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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

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