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Hi everyone and excuse me please if I seem ignorant of the inner workings of Filemaker.

I stuck together my database a couple of years ago when my brain was younger, fresher and it took me the best part of 2 months !!

We use it for writing invoices and creating quotations for my wife's business.

It has worked absolutely brilliantly and I think FM is a wonderful bit of software.

However I have just upgraded my wife's computer to Mac operating system OS10.7 (Lion) and suddenly a strange thing seems to be happening.

This only happens on her computer and not on mine running OS10.6.8.

When she uses one of the little drop down calendars to insert a date it begins fine but when the date appears on the page the year appears is in Japanese/Chinese Kanji characters.

(I have attached an image of the characters)

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I have, of course, checked the language prefs etc in her computer and that all seems ok.

Anyone else had this problem or know of a solution ?

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Check the file for corruption: first save a compressed copy. If still bad then recover the file. Make a backup first.

FMP 9 is was not certified for 10.6, and it's probably broken with 10.7. Download the trial version of FMP 11 (free) and see if it's better on the Lion machine.

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OK guys that does seem to work !

Downloaded the trial version of Filemaker 11 onto my wife's computer (Running Mac OS10.7) and the funny little Kanji characters disappeared.

But, and it's a big BUT, it will cost me £155 GBP to upgrade from FM9 to FM11 !!

That's a lot of money to just fix some odd characters appearing on our invoices !?

Is there not a simple workaround ?

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