Nav 2016 Development Environment

jre

Hello ,

Till Version 2015 it was possible to save Special characters in C/AL Code. Example: startpos := 'š';. In Version 2016 it is not. After saving the object it is replaced with some other value (here it is saved as : startpos := 's';). Does anybody know the reason of this? Is it an Error in Version 2016 ?
Thanks for your Feedback.

Regards

JRE

kriki

I used something like this in older versions:

Like for putting a tab-char in a textvar:

TheTab as Text1

TheTab := 'x';
TheTab[1] := 9;

amaro88

Hi,

I have the same problem than "jre". I dont understand your solution, could you explain it, please? Anyway, I opened another thread.

Regards.

kriki

If I know the ASCII value of what I want to use, I create a text-variable with a value in it to have the text variable initialized. Then I overwrite it with the ASCII-value I want.

vaprog

Well, I could not figure out a solution for the character 'š'. This character is not in ISO 8859-1, so there is no integer value in the range 0..255 for it, because NAV appears to interpret that as beeing a codepoint within ISO 8859-1. Note that ISO 8859-1 is very much like cp1252 (Windows Western European ANSI codepage), but 'š' happens to be in a range which differs (in fact, it is in cp1252 but not in ISO 8859-1).

For unicode characters with codepoints greater that 255, you can use that, but š is U+0161.

The character is actually preserved in an MLCaption, and even displayed correctly.

The character is also preserved in an ML Text Constant, and in any other property value, but this time, it is not properly displayed.

I guess, the only solution is to mess with DotNet string encodings, or read your text from a file or blob, with the proper encoding in place, but I did not try that.

jre

Hallo amaro88,

The workaround is exactly what kriki wrote.

You can find the Ascii value If you have an old Version of Navision where these characters work, you can do EVALUATE(Asciivalue,FORMAT(startPos,0,'<NUMBER>'));
Use this Ascii Value for startpos(Example: startpos := 353;)

Regards,
JRE

jre

Asciivalue is integer
startpos is char