• From: Germany
  • Registered: 04/30/2011
  • Posts: 99

Topic: Missing EUR-symbol in dialogues

We are using german language file and so far it seems to best: german 'umlaute' are shown (and stored!) as they should be. But unfortunately, the EUR-symbol (€) is not part of ISO-8859-1.
Does anbody have a solution?
barney

  • Registered: 12/19/2011
  • Posts: 1

Re: Missing EUR-symbol in dialogues

Hi barney,

Have seen the same today. Afaik ISO-8859-1 (latin1) does NOT know the € character. I think ISO_8859-15 or UTF-8 (and similar encodings) should know it.
Currently the table attribute (currencies.curr_symbol) is still latin1 which is non optimal as well. So I would say this is/should be a feature request to FA team.

Oli

  • From: Poland
  • Registered: 03/10/2011
  • Posts: 28

Re: Missing EUR-symbol in dialogues

AFAIK ISO-8859-15 is just Latin1 extended by Euro sign. This does not solve the problem for other latin encodings, but for Western Europe languages is probably the best solution. Using Utf-8 has other drawbacks like enormous PDF reports size, so we have decided to use mixed approach in next FA 2.5 i.e. utf8 encoded database together with arbitrary encoding in user interface. upgrade scripts will recode old databases to utf8.

Janusz