ASCII set please help

[Guest Andre]

A user from our office, had on his Windows XP the square root sign when he

used, alt-251, now on his new comp with XP he gets another character. How can

i get this back?

[Guest Bob I]

Re: ASCII set please help

 

Have him use the same font that he used before.

 

Andre wrote:

> A user from our office, had on his Windows XP the square root sign when he

> used, alt-251, now on his new comp with XP he gets another character. How can

> i get this back?

[Guest Detlev Dreyer]

Re: ASCII set please help

 

"Andre" <Andre@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> A user from our office, had on his Windows XP the square root sign when

> he used, alt-251, now on his new comp with XP he gets another character.

> How can i get this back?

 

That depends. If you're talking about the command prompt, just enter

'CHCP 437' and he/she's all set.

 

Things are different when using a Windows application. Note that not all

fonts have that character. If he/she's using the same application and

font, the user or the administrator has changed the codepage. Since there

are administrative privileges required as well as the WinXP CD, the Admin

did a bad job in either case. Reset the codepage to 'English (USA)' for

instance: "Working with Code Pages in Windows"

http://www.sisulizer.de/support/codepages.shtml

 

Anyway, the user might be better off when using the Character Map instead:

Start > Run: charmap.exe

 

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[Guest Andre]

Re: ASCII set please help

 

Detlev,

 

Thanks for your support with this. We've solved this issue.

 

Greetz,

 

Andre

[Guest Detlev Dreyer]

Re: ASCII set please help

 

"Andre" <Andre@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Detlev,

>

> Thanks for your support with this. We've solved this issue.

 

You're most welcome, Andre. Thanks for your feedback.

 

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