I thought I resolved this, but the accents in my code disappear when I save and re-open in DevStudio.

Result of ? LANG:

NATIONAL LANGUAGE INFORMATION
Language                001/AMENGLISH   (   ,en)
Code Page               137
Client Code Page        437
Dollar                  24($)
Lowcase alphabet        YES
Decimal notation        OFF(.)
Currency symbol         $
Date/Time format        EDA
NLS sort                YES
NLS upcase/lowcase      YES
NLS Control Characters  OFF
DBCS Flag               OFF(SBCS)

None of these accent characters are retained: À, Á, Â, Ç, È, É, Ê, Î, Ï, Ô, à, á, â, ç, è, é, ê, î, ï, ô.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Francis Mariani,

It seems the code page on the client somehow changed from the required 137 to the default 437. I wonder if this happens every time WebFOCUS is updated, not very nice if this is the case.

Argh!!!

Code page 137 seems to do only half the job!

Works:         á, à, â, ç, Ç, é, É, è, ê, î, ï, ô,
Does not work: Á, À, Â, È, Ê, Î, Ï, Ô

What the heck is going on?

Edited the fex and saved and re-opened. Now all accents show up. Strange.

Did you edit the fex in DS ?

Just wondering.

Yes, editing was done in Dev Studio text editor. I haven't found any Language options in Dev Studio, so I just can't explain why the situation occurred.

Another one for Techsupport ?

Francis,

There used to be an option to "Store data as ANSI" under "Other Settings" in DS - Windows/Options but that has disappeared in 7.6.11. That used to keep symbols such as the Birtish Pound symbol £ for us each time we saved - until we upgraded of course. I got so fed up with having to edit the code each time in DS that I started using HEXBYT(156, 'A1') in DM, Defines and Computes - a bit long winded I know but at least I then didn't have to edit every time!!

Not sure what release it was removed from but it was still there in 7.1.6.

T

Thanks Tony. "Store data as ANSI" is still there in v7.6.8. Perhaps the setting is removed because the files are now always stored as ANSI?