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From: "wim prange" <>
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] FW: Unicode in Notes fields
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:43:45 +0100
In-Reply-To: <B1C1C5BC7A4E73449DE7AC9B763C590902E8ACA0@rosxchcln5.enterprise.veritas.com>


Hi Chi,

I'm sorry I can't be of any help. I will report it on the beta-list. Which
version of Windows do you have?
Also, can you check preview and narrative reports for me? Maybe it's a
displayproblem while the notes come out correctly in reports etc.

Gr. Wim


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chi Vu [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 3:17 PM
> To:
> Subject: RE: [GENBOX] FW: Unicode in Notes fields
>
> Hi Wim,
>
> I am using a Unicode font for the Notes field, Times New
> Roman. The other fonts in use are Tahoma for Lists and Arial
> for everything else, both of which are also Unicode and work
> fine in those fields. I tried Tahoma and Arial in the Notes
> field since those fonts are confirmed to work, but no luck
> either. It seems the Notes field is not encoding Unicode correctly.
>
> Chi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wim prange [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 8:45 PM
> To:
> Subject: RE: [GENBOX] FW: Unicode in Notes fields
>
> Hi Chi,
>
> I'm not sure this will solve the problem but do you have a
> correct font selected for notes ( View > Preferences >
> Fonts)? Josef pointed out to us that the default font for
> lists wasn't a unicode-font, don't know about the notes-font.
>
> Gr. Wim
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chi Vu [mailto:]
> > Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 4:48 PM
> > To:
> > Subject: [GENBOX] FW: Unicode in Notes fields
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> >
> > Unicode characters (in the Vietnamese code range) appear
> correctly in
> > most fields (e.g. name), but have problems in the Notes field. They
> > appear as question mark (?) in the Notes field. Some of those
> > characters are ?, ?, ?.
> >
> >
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong or is it indeed a problem. If the latter
> > then does any one know of a work-around?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chi
> >
> >
> >
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