February 27, 2002 at 12:56 pm
I'm trying to import a couple of 100 files created by an old inhouse DOS program.
The files contain reports with "nice" line drawing characters.
But they do not look right in QA.
I know I'm doing something wrong with the character set, but what, and where do I change it?
Best regards
Henrik Staun Poulsen
Stovi Software, Denmark
February 27, 2002 at 1:25 pm
Can you give an example? It may be that there are carriage returns that are causing formatting issues in QA.
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February 28, 2002 at 12:57 am
Steve,
The entire report is written in a box like this:
ÚÄÄ¿
³ ³
ÀÄÄÙ
In IE this looks horible, but on the printer it is a square box.
It must have something to do with OEM and ANSI but what?
Henrik
February 28, 2002 at 9:40 am
Interesting. Can you open this in the Data Transform task using the "preview"? Does it look ok?
Can you open them in notepad?
You might need to open and convert these to another format.
The other thing you might do is write a VBScript to open the file and print out the ascii() value of the characters. You might be able to remove them with a simple parsing application.
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February 28, 2002 at 10:32 am
It is the font, change the font under options to terminal in QA and it will look the same.
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March 1, 2002 at 4:32 am
It was the font.
When I change this in QA it looks fine.
That leads to another question, which is probably a bit outside this forum but:
Then how do I display the right font in ASP?
Kind regards
Henrik Staun Poulsen
March 1, 2002 at 5:08 am
Sorry, terminal is not a supported font in web so you will not be able to. I also don't know of anything similar that you could provide.
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March 1, 2002 at 11:16 am
Another apology. Not that much of a web guy. You might try posting this at 4guysfromrolla.com and seeing if they have an idea.
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