Question Extended Ascii Characters

[Arjon M. Policar]

Greetings Everyone! I am using OpenEdge 11.3.1, I have a problem on displaying the extended ASCII characters using CHR() function. Please help me masters how to deal with it.

 

[Stefan]

1. which problem?
2. which character codes?
3. what type of client (gui / tty / web)?
4. which code-pages are you using?

 

[TomBascom]

Take two aspirin and call me in the morning...

 

[Arjon M. Policar]

1. which problem?
2. which character codes?
3. what type of client (gui / tty / web)?
4. which code-pages are you using?

My Problem Master Stefan is, when I use the extended ASCII extended characters, it wont display , by the way I am using tty for my client. for example I want to display a full box in my PUTTY instead it displays character "A". Please help me Master Stefan, Thank you.

 

[Stefan]

What do you see in the procedure editor when you:

message
  session:codepage skip
  session:charset skip
  session os-getenv( "TERM" )
view-as alert-box.

I haven't used putty for a long time (since secure shell app was added to chrome).

Possibly Progress KB - Line drawing characters in Progress character client do not display correctly on Linux console helps.

 

[Arjon M. Policar]

I did what you said master Stefan and this is the result:

 

[Stefan]

Not sure why you are showing a gui procedure editor. But assuming that your output is from your tty session - what's the problem? The dialog box, which also uses box /line drawing characters is shown just fine.

 

[Arjon M. Policar]

This picture below Master is the extended ASCII Codes.

My problem Master Stefan is when I want to display the full Box which code is 219, example
chr(219). Instead of full box it displays "Ã" in my PUTTY. That is my problem Master, can you
help me why?, Thank you Master Stefan.

 

[LarryD]

If you are connecting to *nix, you can try this (add it to your .profile or just execute it before you get into Progress):

export LC_ALL=C

 

[tamhas]

The table you are showing is not for 8859-1 ISO/IEC 8859-1 - Wikipedia There is no box in 8859-1.

 

[TomBascom]

Among other things your PuTTY settings need to match the codepage that Progress thinks you are using which needs to match the codepage with the extended characters that you are trying to draw. If any of these do not match then you get undefined results.

 

[Arjon M. Policar]

The table you are showing is not for 8859-1 ISO/IEC 8859-1 - Wikipedia There is no box in 8859-1.

Now I know Master Tamhas, is there other way to display a box in a ISO/IEC 8859-1 ?, Because my Boss doesn't want to change or update our character set because there would be missing characters that are used on our systems. Thank you. . .

 

[Arjon M. Policar]

Thank you Masters.

 

[Arjon M. Policar]

Is It Possible Masters to use export ? Like Export another character set ?

 

[TomBascom]

Progress use various code pages -- but your output device can only use one code page at a time. If you are required to use a code page that does not support the desired output glyph then, no, there is no way to output the box that you want.

It is sort of like trying to print colored output on a printer that only has black toner. You can send color selection control codes all day long but if your boss refuses to buy colored toner you will only see black output.

 

[tamhas]

Depending on the need, you could move to an extended code page like UTF-8 that is more likely to have a superset of the characters you want, but that is a non-trivial commitment. So, you need to ask yourself why you need any particular character and how important is it to the application. If you are trying to store names in a language where accents are important, then those characters are pretty important. If you are just trying to make a ChUI screen slightly more appealing, then I would think twice.

 

[tamhas]

BTW, you might want to add Internationalization (I18n), Localization (L10n), Standards, and Amusements to your bookmarks for a lot of information on this topic.

 

[Arjon M. Policar]

Progress use various code pages -- but your output device can only use one code page at a time. If you are required to use a code page that does not support the desired output glyph then, no, there is no way to output the box that you want.

It is sort of like trying to print colored output on a printer that only has black toner. You can send color selection control codes all day long but if your boss refuses to buy colored toner you will only see black output.

Thank you Master TomBascom for your help.

 

[Arjon M. Policar]

BTW, you might want to add Internationalization (I18n), Localization (L10n), Standards, and Amusements to your bookmarks for a lot of information on this topic.

Thank you Master Tamhas for your help.