Windowes & ASCII characters

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437

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On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 05:05:14PM +0000, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> One of my clients just upgraded to Windows 10 home and is having a display issue with filePro.  The end of field marker is showing as a question mark (?).
> 
> I am trying to figure out why he is having this issue.  He is running filePro 5.0
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> I downloaded the dcabe help file to see make use of the ASCII chart and the graphics code chart in this help.  Where the end of field character should be (\GZ ) on his system it is q question mark on my system the end of field marker appears correctly.
> 
> 
> 1.      Does nay one have a suggestion as to what might be causing this issue? I have already checked the code page which is being used and it matches mine.
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> 2.      Does anyone know the ASCII code for the end of field marker?
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> 3.      Anyone have code for displaying the ASCII code for this character within filePro.
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> I f wrote this routine but it failed as it only read the back slash \
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> aa="\gZ"
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> MSGBOX "The ASCII value of aa is"<chr(aa) - this displays as 92 as that is the value for the backslash
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> The following code display on a screen:
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> aa="\gZ"
> ab=asc(aa)
> ac=chr(aa)
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> aa displays on screen as \gZ
> ab displays as 92
> ac displays as -
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> My client did not have this issue when these computers were using Windows 7.
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> Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Richard Kriess
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