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ASCII Characters Lost Using CONVERT.EXE |
The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
Problem
Symptoms: A customer has a document which was originally created in DataPerfect. Because the document contains foreign letters (names), it has ASCII (multinational) characters throughout. The customer converted the file into Lotus, created a WK1 file, and converted the WK1 file into a DIF format. At this point all ASCII characters were retained. When converting a Lotus .DIF file with extended ASCII characters 129, 132, 137, 139, 148 and 160 to a WP secondary merge file using CONVERT.EXE, those characters are stripped out and replaced with a question mark. The customer tried using the /CP=850 startup option, and some of the ASCII characters were retained, but not all. Solutions: The customer was using an older version of CONVERT.EXE that came with DataPerfect. By using the 12/31/90 version of WordPerfect CONVERT.EXE, all of the ASCII characters were retained. |
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