Disappearing (Euro) Dollars

[James Newton]

On 20/4/04 5:42 pm, "Rob Cozens" <rcozens at pon.net> wrote:
> I have a text file containing the Euro currency symbol...
> I can paste the character in a field; but if I "put field [field with
> character] into field [some other field]", my Euro symbol is gone.
> 
> OTOH, if I "set the htmlText of field [some other field] to the
> htmlText of field  [field with character]", the symbol is retained.

Hi Rob,

The Euro symbol requires Unicode: it is not one of the standard characters.
It looks as if the put command doesn't handle Unicode, but the htmlText
property does.

Cheers,

James