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Dale,
I use a spanish keyboard that contains characters not found on a standard english language keyboard. Stock table item descriptions often contain the ñ character as it is a standard character in the Spanish language. When printing receipts or exporting the stock table, the ñ character is replaced with the * symbol. Conversely, when importing a .txt or .csv file into the stock table, the ñ character is replaced with the ± symbol. I know nothing about the difficulties of QBasic programming and I also know that this is a regional issue that 99.9% of POS users will never experience, but if you can find the time in some future update, (if it is possible?) it would be a great help for spanish language users of POS to have this corrected.

The ASCII code for ñ is alt 165.
Here is a more or less complete list of the Spanish character ASCII alt codes:

é 130
É 144
á 160
í 161
ó 162
ú 163
Ñ 164
ñ 165
ª 166
º 167
¿ 168
¡ 173

Thanks!

Joe,

Actually the POS program does not care what ASCII character you use. It treats the upper 128 ASCII codes the same way that it treats the regular lower 128. I am sure that the it appears on the screen correctly.

However printers are a different matter. Many receipt printers will not print the upper 128 ASCII characters. While the POS program can do a lot it cannot get your printer to print characters that it cannot print.

Dale,

Thanks for the reply. The problem is not due to the printer. As noted in my previous post, the character change occurs when exporting the stock table to a text file (guess I wasn't very clear about that). The created text file displays the changed characters on the monitor. Conversely, if I import a .csv file into the POS stocktable, the stocktable displays changed characters on the monitor. Strange but true. I can only assume that the problem lies somewhere in POS since I am not sending the data to a printer.

Joe,

You should export the CSV file using codepage 437. I think that should work!
When viewing an exported file, you should let the program you're using (spreadsheet for example) know to use that codepage. Windows and DOS use different codepages (= ASCII char's > 128).

Hope I helped.

Grtz.

J Mous