dataport export into txt file : wrong characters

bbass

I've written an export dataport, where I export some item data.

When executing the dataport, everything works fine in Navision, but in my txt file, the following occurs:

I export for instance the description of an item with value:
10 pièces
In my txt file I find:
10 pi??ces.

This also happens with the following characters: è ö à

Remark: I open the txt file in MS Notepad.

Is this a problem of notepad, or is Navision causing this? And how can I fix it?

Any idea?

Savatage

does it have to be (è) can you find & replace it with a regular (e)?

that might be the easiest fix

bbass

I really need the characters like "è" because they are frequently used in the descriptions and it is French and replacing it into "e" would be a big mistake

jhoek

This is clearly a character set issue. Navision writes ASCII, most other Windows apps use ANSI. Search this forum, or mbsonline.org for a conversion function, which looks something like this:

CONVERTSTR('òëø...', 'öíç...');

Good luck!

bbass

Thanks !

But I've read that Navision exports the data in ASCII. Notepad/Wordpad doesn't support ASCII, but ANSI.

So, is there a program that supports ASCII, so that I don't need to do a conversion, and would it then be solved?

Or do I better convert ASCII into ANSI in Navision?

What would you suggest?

Luc_VanDyck

I would suggest you take a look at this download to convert ASCII to ANSI and vice versa: http://www.mibuso.com/dlinfo.asp?FileID=287

trianta99

I had the same problem with greek characters.
When i tried to upload a *.txt file with greek characters i found in my tables ??&#$.

so i made to text constants:
tcFromChars:
αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρστυφχψωίόώήάέύΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩΈΎΊΌΆΉΏς

with all greek characters and

tcToChars:
ÜÝÞúßüýûþ¢¸¹º¼¾¿±µÚÛ»½°À³àÿ¯­®²??‘’“”•–—˜™š›œ?žŸ£¤¥¦¨©ª†ŒˆŠë‡?´

with characters that i found in my table when i uploaded my text file.
(my text file contained the characters in tcFromChars text constants)

Then i used the following code in my program:
If the my Application language is greek i use:

iFieldCode.Description := CONVERTSTR(kadDescr,tcFromChars,tcToChars)


and if my Application language is English i use:

iFieldCode.Description := CONVERTSTR(kadDescr,tcToChars,tcFromChars)

The variable kadDescr contains data from my text file in greek.

bbass

Thanks for all the answers! Very helpful