How to manage file name containing a date with /

[Peter Haworth]

Andre,
Not sure if this might help but there was a thread recently about using
ISOToMac and MacToISO to handle ascii values above 127 entered on one
platform and used on the other.

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:27 AM, André Bisseret
<andre.bisseret at wanadoo.fr>wrote:

> 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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