Kbase 13996: Emulating foreign (international) keyboard for testing
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
10/05/1998 |
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Emulating foreign (international) keyboard for testing
Often times, one of our customers in Europe reports
a bug like: "It only happens when I press a-umlaut in
and UPDATE statement"
We go scrambling for a terminal which has an a-umlaut
key. Its even more inconvenient if the bug is reported
by someone with an eastern-european keyboard and we
have never even heard of the character.
There is an easy shortcut which can frequently be used
to reproduce the bug without finding a special terminal:
For example, a-umlaut has numeric value 228 or 132, depending
on which codepage is being used. So, to simulate
pressing a-umlaut in an UPDATE myvar, do this:
DEF VAR myvar AS CHAR.
UPDATE myvar EDITING:
APPLY 228. /* or 132 */
LEAVE.
END.
Progress Software Technical Support Note # 13996