Re: German keyboard/characters -> very strange problem.

Just two tries: Maybe it's the terminal setting, as far as I remember the some of the special characters in the international charset are replaced by the german special chars (e.g. | is replaced by '). There might by a change code setting along with the terminal. Could also be the setting of the environment variable LANG. For Germany it should by De_DE.88591. (According to my SINIX-Manual) Sincerely Roland bashir Akram wrote: > > The application is developed on a SCO box in the UK, (i4gl 4.11, SE 5.03) > > On the customers site in Germany, > for any input statement details are brought back from the database and displayed fine, > this includes the extra german characters, > however when a user enters a field ( e.g. Address ) the extra characters are > replaced with ? or }. > > Any ideas why this is happening? > (somehow its getting confused in the input statement thinking its english characters? > or problem with 7bit/8bit characters?) > > what's puzzling is the intial display/input is ok, > its only when a field is entered that the problem/corruption occurs? > > another strange thing, if I generate a form in sql, > I can view/modify the extra characters without a problem. > -- > -----------------------------. In nature there are neither rewards nor > ! Email bash@bash.demon.co.uk ! punishments - there are consequences. > `-----------------------------' - Illich, Ivan.: