Kbase 21466: I18N -- Losing Special Characters With SLK Files in Results
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
9/15/2006 |
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Status: Unverified
GOAL:
How to export with Results an SLK file without losing some characters
FACT(s) (Environment):
Progress 8.x
SYMPTOM(s):
Results
CAUSE:
Under certain Locales, when you export a table from Results to an SLK file, you could lose some characters when importing the file to an Excel spreadsheet.
For example, with a French Database you generate an SLK file and after importing the file to Excel the French accents will disappear from the file. They will be replaced by incorrect characters.
The reason for this is that the -cpstream in the startup.pf file has not been set to the Windows OS code page. For example, for Western European languages the default code page for Windows is 1252.
FIX:
Use the appropriate -cpstream setting for the Local code page in the startup.pf, to insure the correct output SLK file. For example, in the case of a French Database deployed over Windows:
-cpstream 1252