Strange characters

[Polly66]

Hi,

Does anyone know why I might be getting strange characters (resembling an eastern european language, Sunday looks like DCAEUEO, but with little squiggles on some characters) in reports. It is generally only date related, but is not always apparant. The function CDOW(date) is a common offender. I am using VFP 9 and XP.

Bill

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Cdow() is language dependant, depending on the resource file used. you seem to want to force usage of the english resource file vfp9enu.dll. Don't distribute other language dependant dlls then, like vfp9deu.dll (that would display "Sonntag" in your case) etc.

VFP will normally use the resource file that matches to os language. If that isn't found it defaults to vfp9enu.dll
vfp can be forced to use a certain resource file with the command line option -L.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Bill,

On the subject of resource files, see thread184-1189465

Mike

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[Polly66]

Thanks Olaf and Mike,

It is fixed. I thought that it was probably a language thing, but never imagined that VFP would wander between them.

Bill