Does anyone knows how to display German character on webfocus report without going to server change on the NLS?
For example, we have German language characters such as "ö". I want the webfocus report to display it correctly on the report.
Currently on the webfocs report, it's showing either "?" or "÷" instead of "ö".This message has been edited. Last edited by: <Kathryn Henning>,
Shirley Huang WF 7.7.04M MRE BID DevStudio WIN2003, SQL Server 2000/DB2 HTML/PDF/EXL2k/AHTML iSM 6.16
July 31, 2014, 08:37 AM
SWES
Hello Shirley,
Have you looked into the HEXBYT function? Use this as a DEFINE field: SP/A1 = HEXBYT(246, 'A1');
And you will see the umlaut!
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July 31, 2014, 09:43 AM
Francis Mariani
I tried the character on my server in Canada and it displays correctly.
You MAY be able to alter the character set by doing the following: specify the character set in a meta tag.
Here's an example. You can try various character sets described here.
Below is an example. When I ran this example WITHOUT the meta tag, the report displayed the character, when I used our default meta tag it did not display correctly.
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
COMPUTE TEST/A100 = MODEL || (' ' | 'ö' | ' ' ) || BODYTYPE;
BY COUNTRY
ON TABLE HOLD AS H001 FORMAT HTMTABLE
END
-RUN
-HTMLFORM BEGIN
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="ISO646-DE">
<title>WebFOCUS Report</title>
<body>
!IBI.FIL.H001;
</body>
</html>
-HTMLFORM END
Francis
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August 06, 2014, 06:34 PM
Shirley
SWES - I tried your method, it didn't work for me.
Francis - Thanks! Your example will work if the report is in HTML format. What if the report format is in different format such as Excel/PDF/AHTML?
Many thanks!
Shirley Huang WF 7.7.04M MRE BID DevStudio WIN2003, SQL Server 2000/DB2 HTML/PDF/EXL2k/AHTML iSM 6.16
August 07, 2014, 05:18 AM
SWES
Shirley, could you be more specific, what did you see on your screen?
DEFINE FILE CAR
SP/A1 = HEXBYT(246, 'A1');
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT SP
BY COUNTRY
END
Should work, I just don't know in what context you would like the umlaut. For example in a HEADING or in a defined field or?
Shirley Huang WF 7.7.04M MRE BID DevStudio WIN2003, SQL Server 2000/DB2 HTML/PDF/EXL2k/AHTML iSM 6.16
August 08, 2014, 03:21 AM
SWES
That's strange... sorry can't open your link here.
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August 08, 2014, 03:43 AM
Alan B
This is why code pages are needed. In some environments ascii 246 will give the ÷ (what Shirley is seeing at times) and some the ö (what SWES is seeing). When and where is to big a subject here.
The answer is that you do need to set the code page on the server and client for the character set you are using, otherwise the character display is unreliable/wrong.
