Special characters in a text constant (NAV 2009 R2)

poppins

Hi everyone,

I am trying to create a text constant with some special characters like ä or ü.
The thing is when I try to type a special character, for example ä in its caption value(DEU=ä...), it is changed automatically to ae after I save it.
I need to print this text in a classic report.
What shall I do to keep the special characters?

Thanks in advance

nedimyami

hi,
Convert your special ascıı characters to ansii before you run classic report.
Assign your 'ä' character(ascıı code) to a char variable. and use convertstr function.
for example,

ConvertSTR(text,'ä',CharVar)
text --> which include ä charcter in text
charvar --> assigned ascii code for ä(ascıı code is 228)

Kowa

In my region (Western Europe) NAV has no problems with these characters. These are included both in DOS code page 850 (which NAV uses internally) and Windows (ANSI) code page 1252.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/windows/desktop/dd317756(v=vs.85).aspx
Which part of the world are you from? What code page is set in the OS for non-unicode text files?