[V4MD] accented characters (once again)

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 1/5/05 9:19 PM, "bibiko at eva.mpg.de" <bibiko at eva.mpg.de> wrote:

Hi Hans,

>>> Then I copied the database on a Windows PC. The crucial problem all
>> characters with diacritics are gone!
>  
>  
>> what is your language setting? Did you set it to German?
> I didn't specify any language because the data are multi-lingual. All fields
> are 'ASCII'.

AND THIS IS sources of your problem.

You need specify here German or language that you use


>> How exactly you do store the text?
> I use the xtra fileIO for reading, create the tables, modify some data, and
> store them into the database.
> 
> For the huge Valentina Text fields I query data from the DB which I filled
> just
> before, generate some PropLists and save them in the DB.
> 
>> Director automatically converts characters in fields and
>> text members according to the fontmap.txt, i.e. is does
>> a fontmapping for accented characters when needed.
> Well, I know and the fontmap.txt file is fine for both platforms. But I only
> used lingo variables.
> 
> This is the first time that I have such problems and the first time that I
> used
> a MAC for generating such a DB.
> 
> Temporary I solved the problem via XML dump on my MAC and LoadDump on my
> Windows
> PC, but the bad thing is now I have two different DBs with the same data
> because
> I copied the via LoadDump on a Windows PC generated DB on a MAC and then I had
> the same problem on my MAC?!
> 
> 
> Could it be that the xtra fileIO reading routine is different on both
> platforms?
> In my eyes this is the sticking point. If I have a bit time I will do the same
> importing procedure on a Windows PC and then I'll try this DB on a MAC.

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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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