I'm having problems pasting in characters I've copied from the Windows
Character Map utility into a Filemaker Pro text field.

In particular, the test character string:

CcEeNnRrSsTZzAaIiOoUu - all with carons on top.

ČčĚěŇňŘřŠšŤŽžǍǎǏǐǑǒǓǔ

copies as:

????????Šš?Žž????????

As you can see, many of the caron characters paste in as "?".
The same character string pastes into MSWord just fine. Previewing
this message, it looks like I have a similar problem with Google
Groups, if you're seeing a bunch of "&#nnn;"s above.

I particularly need the Č = "C with caron" (aka C - Hachek = C
with a tiny "v" on top) to enter names of Eastern European dances into
a new database.

The font I'm using in both Windows Character Map and FMP is Arial.

Is this a limitation in FMP 5.5? Is there a workaround?

Thanks,
Craig

Craig wrote:
Check out http://www.asciitable.com/

I can't tell whether FM is at fault but from what I have seen and read
avoid anything over ALT+127 in an international and/or cross platform
environment. FM made is for Mac and Windows platforms. Exchanging
special characters was a problem between Mac OS 9 and Windows in some
applications.

Some languages offer alternative spelling to avoid diacritics. E.g. in
German an umlaut can also be written as an "e" after the vowel that
should have the umlaut -> ä (a umlaut) = ae

In international e-mail I also avoid special characters, even the EURO sign.

Rob

This kind of thing works find for me with XP and FM 7. FM 7 can do
unicode, so I'd think about upgrading.


Rob <krekmek (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote