Powerform and Characters like ÄÖÜ 1

[gphuber]

Im using Power Cobol 3.0V10 since 1998 with Power Form. Everything works under Windows 98 and WinNT. With Windows XP I get an Error on Output File when I try to print a Textfield within Characters like Ä Ö Ü. When I use notmal Characters it works. Does everybody know a way to print with powerform under Windows XP ??

Thanks

Goetz

 

[Dimandja]

Hi gphuber,

Those characters appear to be German. Windows XP installs a few (4?) languages by default. This would mean that German is not installed on your system. See the following link for changing language settings:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/xp/three/intd03.htm

Dimandja

 

[gphuber]

Thanks for your answer Dimandja, but it doesn't fix the Problem. When I write in an Textfield it works , when i load the field from a file it fails. I can't understand it.

Goetz

 

[Dimandja]

Hi gphuber,

Characters like [ignore]Ä Ö Ü[/ignore] are known as Unicode characters. Normally Unicode characters must be stored and retrieved as binary data. When dealing with binary data, you must pay close attention to byte alignment (starting each Unicode character on an even byte address), and your program must be coded to perform conversions between binary and displayable data.

Some solutions:

Store Unicode data in Hex characters:
05 var PIC X(40) VALUE "FEFF65E5672C8A9E306E6CE891C8306E4F8B".

Here, you'll find a handy table for conversion of German and other Unicode characters to Decimal (hence Hex) values:

http://www.biega.com/special-char.html

Some SQL versions have an identifier for Unicode data:
CHAR UNICODE

Some database engines fully support Unicode storage/retrieval.

If you need further help on this, let me know - I'll post more resources you can use.

Dimandja