Problem with Windows but not with Mac (I know, it's usual!!)

Fran=?ISO-8859-1?B?5w==?=ois Cuneo francois.cuneo at cuk.ch
Fri Mar 5 05:49:00 EST 2004


Ok, thank you all.

I understand but I think that Revolution has to write that very big in the
documentation!!!:-)

Friendly

François


Le 5.3.2004 11:41, A.C.T. à albrecht at act-net.com a écrit:

> Hi,
> 
> just to make sure:
> 
>> I think Klaus is right -- don't use accented chars for control names!
>> It may be OK within a single platform -- but causes problems if
>> "translated" to other platforms... (as é > È ;-)))
> 
> It is NOT a problem of windows but of using various platforms running
> different code pages. In fact: The MAC is the one that uses an abstruse
> variation of ISO code (called "Mac-Roman"), not the "PC" ;-)
> 
> I think this should be considered an issue for documentation and
> eventually the compiler part: Dealing with platforms that use different
> codepages not only creates problems in content (where Revolution seems
> to take care of it) but also in commenting the code and, naturally, in
> variable names. I wouldn't use a variable named "Fläche" on Windows
> either, because porting that code to AIX might bring trouble with it.
> 
> Marc Albrecht
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Amicalement
François
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