Kbase P11607: Is it possible to display the Euro symbol with Character client on a windows machine?
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
28/07/2004 |
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Status: Unverified
GOAL:
Is it possible to display the Euro symbol with Character client on a windows machine?
FACT(s) (Environment):
Windows 32 Intel
FACT(s) (Environment):
Windows NT 32 Intel/Windows 2000
FIX:
It is possible to display the Euro symbol with the character client, but it relies on the OEM DOS code page that comes with the windows operating system. With western windows machines this is usually ibm437 or ibm850, but these code pages do not support the Euro symbol. The only DOS code page that does support the Euro is ibm858.
To install this on Windows XP and WIN2000 perform the following steps:
1. Insert the Windows install disk in the machine.
2. On Windows XP, from the Start menu, select:
Settings->Control Panel->Regional and Language Options->Advanced Tab.
3. On Windows 2000, from the Start menu, select:
Settings->Control Panel->Regional Options->General Tab->Advanced button.
4. Scroll the Code page conversion Tables browse down to "858 (OEM Multilingual Latin 1 + Euro)".
5. Check ON the code page install toggle and select the O.K. button.
6. When prompted, browse the Install CD for i386\c_858.nls (XP) or i386\c_858.NL_ (WIN2000). When found, select this file and it will install.
To test the Euro symbol in a Character client session do the following:
1. Start a PROENV session.
2. At the prompt type "chcp 858" to change the session OEM code page to ibm858.
3. Using the right mouse button, click on the proenv window heading, select properties->font tab. Change the window font to 'Lucida Console' and press the O.K. button.
4. Start a character client session with:
_progres -cpinternal ibm858 -cpstream ibm858
5. When the Progress session starts you will then be able to enter the Euro symbol with either ALT+213 or CHR(213).