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Unicode Characters
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| Roger Sauer 2005-04-30, 8:25 pm |
| When I look at the Windows XP character map for the "Courier New" font, I see a lot of characters beyond 255. In fact, there are some line- and box-drawing characters shown as "U+2500" through "U+256C".
Does anyone know how to access these characters (for streaming text printing, perhaps) using dBASE Plus? dBL seems capable of handling Unicode strings, so it would seem it's possible to get at these drawing characters.
Thanks in advance for suggestions.
Roger Sauer
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| Rick Fillman 2005-05-09, 8:24 pm |
| for non-table i/o, your characters must be a member of the current code page
Command window:
? charset
and you can see the current code page.
Although dBASE does utilize Unicode *internally*,
the last I looked there was no way to set the dBASE code page to (any)
Unicode code page.
-Rick-
FYI: The dBASE code page derives from the BDE Language Driver setting for
dbf tables, and can also be overridden in the plus.ini file.(ldriver=)
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