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Euro symbol support
The Euro symbol is now supported by Superbase, as long as
the font being used also includes the symbol in the place
that Microsoft has assigned it for most European code pages.
That positionn is 128 in the ANSI code page (page 1252). In
order to access this character programmatically from Superbase,
it is necessary to use CHR$ (179). Position 179 is the position
in the OEM code page that Superbase is using to contain the
Euro symbol. This position is safe, since it was never previously
possible to enter a character into this position via the keyboard,
nor to output this character to any standard Windows device
(screen, printer). The Euro symbol can also be entered into
the System Options dialog if your OS supports the character
in the Arial font. It cannot be seen in the program editor
unless the fonts on your OS have been manipulated since Microsoft
only updated what it considered to be the core fonts: Arial,
Courier New, and Times New Roman. The font used in the program
editor is FixedSys, and is therefore incapable of displaying
the Euro symbol. Also, the properties browser will not correctly
display the Euro character, since it is using the MS Sans
Serif font which was also not updated for Euro support.
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