Basics about Umlauts

[APi]

Hi, first of all I want to thank you for this forum and for HMG.

I work with HMG 3.4.2 and W7. I have an old (1987) Programm written in Clipper.

When I open a *.dbf from this program with MS-Excel, I can see Umlauts (öäü ÖÄÜ)
When I work with HMG-IDE Unicode 1.0.9, there are all Umlauts stolen.

When I use the sample tutor21.hbp and I edit a name to "Müller" the name looks in Excel "M├╝ller".

Thanks in advance for an answer.

Arnulf W. Pickert (APi)

[Rathinagiri]

Welcome to HMG Forum.

Can you please give a small sample or screenshot?

[APi]

नमस्ते श्री Rathinagiri,

thank you for your welcome. Here are the screenschoots.

[APi]

...or look please here: http://www.api-gm.de/HMG.pdf

[serge_girard]

Rathi,

I have the same problem with umlauts in german names/cities.

Serge

[srvet_claudio]

Perhaps it is because the DBF file is in ANSI and the program code is in Unicode.

[serge_girard]

Thanks Claudio, this could be the cause. I'll check.

Serge

[esgici]

more ...

After years since Unicode, we can not expect MS-Excel will recognize and right implement ANSI character sets

Viva HMG Unicoded

[APi]

I think I solved the problem:

Function Main

SET LANGUAGE TO GERMAN
SET DATE TO GERMAN
SET CODEPAGE TO GERMAN
EXTERNAL HB_CODEPAGE_ES850
REQUEST HB_SETCODEPAGE
HB_SETCODEPAGE ('ES850')

... and in the PSPad-Editor I use as Format "OEM"

[serge_girard]

Arnulf,


Can you please try

REQUEST HB_CODEPAGE_UTF8

(instead of your 6 lines of code) and let me known if it works.

Thx/Serge