How to manage file name containing a date with /

[André Bisseret]

Thank you much Dar for your reply.

This morning I tried on Windows:
replace ":" with numToChar(240) in tDocName > no success

but, actually, when I past the mysterious char (kind of period) in the message box, I get "ð 
I mean I get quote followed by ð
So I tried 
put quote & numToChar(240) into tVar
replace ":" with tVar in tDocName  > again no success 

When I paste the mysterious char directly in the script it is immediately replaced by "?" 
so I tried
replace ":" with "?" in tDocName > no success

I am completely lost.
What could I do? 

Thanks in advance for any suggestion

Best regards

André




Le 18 juil. 2013 à 22:47, Dar Scott a écrit :

> That is a lower case eth.  The Unicode is 00F0, F0 in Latin-1.  Windows uses some other font encoding.
> 
> You might be able to use that character directly whatever it looks like.  Windows will just see the code for it.  On Windows.
> 
> If it was saved to Windows and you are looking at it on Mac, then it might look different.  In all cases, if saved on Windows, then try numToChar(240) whatever it looks like.  
> 
> Similarly, if it was saved on Mac, use the appropriate numToChar( ...).
> 
> Dar
> 
> 
> On Jul 18, 2013, at 1:57 PM, André Bisseret wrote:
> 
>> ð
> 
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