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Subject:Re: Stack Overflow
Date:Thu, 22 Aug 2019 07:58:15 +1000
From:Leslie <"ViaThe List"@NOSPAM.com>
Newsgroups:pnews.paradox-development
Interesting, for me Unicode is the default.

On 22/08/2019 1:32 AM, Steven Green wrote:
> ANSI is the default.. so why does simply pasting something into Notepad
> create a problem?
>
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> Steven Green
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> "Leslie"  wrote in message news:5d5d630d$1@pnews.thedbcommunity.com...
>
> An extra step to avoid the "invalid character" is to save the notepad
> file as ANSI, re-open and then copy the text out.
>
>
> On 21/08/2019 10:16 PM, Steven Green wrote:
>> hey, Mark, I'm creating the same thing in my head right now, so I'll
>> look at yours today.. thanks !!
>>
>> the one thing that got me yesterday, in principle, was this..
>>
>> highlight and copy from a word doc.. paste to an F, you get "not an rtf
>> file" error
>> highlight and copy from an rtf doc.. paste to an F, you get "not an rtf
>> file" error
>>
>> highlight and copy from a word doc.. paste directly to an M, it usually
>> works.. BUT..
>>
>> highlight and copy from a word doc.. paste it to notepad first, thinking
>> notepad is gonna eat the bad stuff, then copy and paste that to an M,
>> you get an "invalid character" error and have to replace the bad
>> characters that notepad introduced :-)
>>
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>>
>> Steven Green
>> Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA
>>
>> http://www.OasisTradingPost.com
>>
>> Collectibles and Memorabilia
>> Vintage Lego Sets and Parts
>> - and Paradox support, too
>> "Peter"  wrote in message news:5d5cf831$1@pnews.thedbcommunity.com...
>>
>> Oh man, does this bring back bad memories. I had this exact problem on
>> my 256 field with umpteen formatted memo fields table.
>>
>> In the end it turned out that there was some invisible control
>> characters or something in one memo field of a few records. To fix the
>> problem I deleted everything in the record's memo field and retyped (not
>> pasted).
>>
>> You could copy the table and then blank the memo field for every record
>> to see what happens.
>>
>>
>> On 08/20/2019 08:46 AM, Steven Green wrote:
>>> so this was a big wabbit hole, still trying to figure it out completely
>>>
>>> first off, indexes
>>>
>>> INDEX MAINTAINED, single field, still makes an X0* file.. multi-field
>>> and/or CASE INSENSITIVE, it makes an XG* file.. I guess we're all
>>> supposed to still know that :-)
>>>
>>> second, changing the index type didn't fix this problem.. all three
>>> reproducible GP errors point to values past the end of the index
>>> values of the linked table, which is what made me notice the old
>>> indexes, but the bottom line on that linked table is still "invalid
>>> formatted memo header".. make that go away, everything else is fine
>>>
>>> so today's experiment is changing the two F fields to M fields.. we'll
>>> see.. but in another related scenario in that app, losing the F will
>>> lose some critical BOLD paragraph headers.. so we're still trying to
>>> ID whatever it is in the F fields that allows the data in the field
>>> but causes the table failure
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Steven Green
>>> Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA
>>>
>>> http://www.OasisTradingPost.com
>>>
>>> Collectibles and Memorabilia
>>> Vintage Lego Sets and Parts
>>> - and Paradox support, too
>>> "Steven Green"  wrote in message
>>> news:5d4ad422$1@pnews.thedbcommunity.com...
>>>
>>> wow.. haven't seen that expression in a long time
>>>
>>> tableframe in a form.. get the stack overflow when using Record / GoTo /
>>> Last (Ctrl-F12).. don't get it interactively on the raw table..
>>>
>>> same table I reported here the other day, with the unexpected filter
>>> behavior.. table has been rebuilt and packed regularly, always.. I'm
>>> gonna
>>> do some testing, but I don't have a clue
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Steven Green
>>> Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA
>>>
>>> http://www.OasisTradingPost.com
>>>
>>> Collectibles and Memorabilia
>>> Vintage Lego Sets and Parts
>>> - and Paradox support, too
>>
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