inserting ASCII characters in a field

[oilman]

Hi all

I am trying to insert the ASCII symbol of the up and down arrow in a FM field.

The field is format as text field. The ASCII character for the up arrow is alt. 24 and alt.25 for the down arrow. Put in FM the question mark "?" appears instead of the arrows. Inserted the arrows in MS Word and importing them into FM but the question mark (?) appears. Does FM accepts the up and down arrows and what ASCII charaters are they.

Thanks inadvance

Lionel

[Mike D.]

The reason you can't put the ascii characters for arrows in your field is that there are no ascii codes for arrows. Check out this link for yourself Ascii Table .

You could copy the arrows from Word and paste them into the text fields.

HTH, Mike

[oilman]

Hi Mike

Thanks for the information. Must have a combine list of ascii and ms word characters. Tried copy and paste from ms word but only get question marks in the FM field instead of arrows. FM must not recognize arrows.

Thanks for the link.

Lionel

[Mike D.]

Lionel,

You're right. I tried the copy/paste from Word and got the same results regardless of the font type for that text field. I even tried Arial Unicode MS since the arrow symbol I copied was unicode.

Mike

[oilman]

Hi Mike

I think is the problem is in the format of FM which i think is ANSI. Inserted the arrows in notepad and save it in an ANSI format and retrieved it and the arrows were question mark instead of arrows.

thanks for your help

Lionel