I've just d/l the Trial version of FMP8 and converted a multi-file db from v5.5 which contains a lot of fields in Greek (I live and work in Athens, Greece). Now, I know that since v7, FMP has been Unicode, so I don't understand the following problem:

Some of the greek fields appear fine, some others show gobbledeygook. All fields in greek share exactly the same settings, so why the difference? Any ideas/tips?

Thanks, people.

how about a screen shot of the before and after?

Same problem for Turkish with version 7 and 8 also.

You have to replace special turkish characters after converting and i can't find a beter solution yet.

Hi Lee, I've posted a screenshot at

http://zachopoulos.com/screenshots/FMP8_Greek_Problem.png

You're looking at an engineer's card layout, with first/last name, address line 1 with street name and no, address lines 2 and 3 showing garbage instead of the greek text.

All fields have exactly the same settings as far as behavior/fonts are concerned.

In FMP5.5 all is well, as you can see in this screenshot of the same layout:

http://zachopoulos.com/screenshots/FMP5_Greek_OK.png

I'm stumped.

Edited August 31, 200520 yr by Guest

Unicode is just one of the storage options available.

Since the Fonts in these two screen shots do not appear to be the same font, have you checked the storage options to see if they are being stored in the same language? I do not have Greek available to me on my system, mine defaults to English.

HTH

Lee

Hi Lee,

I don't know why the difference in fonts. I went into the v7 layout, made sure everything is Verdana and put up a new screenshot at

www.zachopoulos.com/screenshots/FMP7_Still_problem.png

In the two fields showing square boxes, the characters straight after the boxes have been manually added in v7, so it *is* possible to type in Greek keyboard layout. It's just that for some reason, upon opening the converted file from v5.5, v7 replaces some of the text fields and not the others.

And, yes, the Storage is all Greek. Period.

Any other ideas? As always, many thanks.