french characters

[palpet]

hello everyone. i got a problem i cant figure out. i created a crystal report on a server that many users around the office acces. i have a french version of the report, everything is fine when i acces it from my computer, but when someone else on another computer access it, the report doesnt display the same symbol. for example, é will show up fine on my computer but it will show a æ on another, making the report unreadable. anyone know what i overlooked here? thanks in advance for any help

 

[reporting]

Actually don't think you overlooked anything in Crystal... Sounds like a localization problem to me.

Check the Regional Settings on the machine(s) where your accented chars chars are coming out wrong. I think that you will find that they will have different language settings from the machine(s) that display the accented characters correctly.

HTH,

John Marrett
Crystal Reports Trainer & Consultant

http://www.e-reporting.ca

 

[Madawc]

Because we all use computers designed in the USA, and mostly languages written there, anything beyond the US norm can be tricky.

I've no idea of the specifics in Crystal, but in moving ASCII files between machines, accented letters and some punctuation marks get changed, or cease to have a meaning that the machine knows.

ASCII was originally a 7-bit and 128-symbol system for paper tapes. When it was adapted for computers, there were inconsistencies in what was done with the extra 128 combinated that became possible on an 8-byte coding system.

Madawc Williams
East Anglia
Great Britain