Subject: Quoting illegal characters

     Problem:
     
     Some characters on the MAC or other AFP Server are illegal characters 
     in Windows 95 for a particular language.  When the PC attempts to 
     access shared items with illegal characters in the folder, computer, 
     or zone name, it encounters illegal characters and the Win95 function 
     called fails.  For example logging in, mapping a drive, accessing a 
     particular folder or file.  Get messages indicating access denied, 
     when you know that correct privileges are granted for the current 
     user.
     
     Solution:
     
     In version 6.01 of PC Maclan or later, you can add registry keys that 
     specify certain illegal characters to be QUOTED out of all Appletalk 
     related functions.  This means that if you can't simply change the 
     name of the zone, computer, volume, folder, or file to not include 
     these illegal characters, then you can quote the characters and they 
     will appear on the Win95 computer as numbers instead of illegal 
     characters.  For example, ASCII character 128 is an €, which in some 
     fonts/character sets is a Swedish A.  Instead of seeing a volume named 
     '€ll Drives' the quoted Win95 with version 6.01 or later will see 
     '[128]ll Drives'.  
     
     Note that this approach adds overhead.  Every character that is quoted 
     will be replaced by up to four extra characters.  But this approach 
     solves many of these type of problems and may be worth doing if you 
     can't just rename the computer, volume, folder, or file.
     
     Below is the procedure for quoting illegal characters with version 
     6.01 or later.  See the attached Quote.reg file that contains some 
     default quoted characters.
     
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     From Explorer, 
     
     1. Select quote.reg with right mouse button to bring up context menu.
     2. Select Merge.
     3. Select OK to close the window that says regisrty items have been 
     merged.
     4. Select Start button and Run option.
     5. Type regedit.exe and select OK to open Registry Editor.
     6. Open the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key by double clicking on its folder
     7. Continue opening the following keys
           SOFTWARE
              Miramar Systems, Inc.
                 FileClient
     8.  In the right pane of the window you should see 3 values
         two string values and a binary value.  Double click on the binary  
         value (with the icon showing 011) called QuoteChars.
     9.  Review the list of characters to see if any of the default
         characters are ones that should definitely NOT be quoted.  If any
         of the characters should be removed, highlight the character on
         right side or the hex value in the middle and press delete.
     10. Then position the cursor at the end of the list and type the 
         character or hex value (ASCII) for each illegal character
         that is causing problems.
     11. Select OK button.
     12. Close Registry Editor, and restart Win95.


WARNING:  Miramar Systems will not be held responsible for any damages to
the Windows based operating system wherein the system registry has been
manually modified by users of our software.

Please understand that the use of REGEDIT may effect the operation and
stability of your Windows based system.  Although we make every effort to
give as complete and accurate information as possible, the ultimate impact
on your system may involve registry keys not within the scope of our product
and control. 

Miramar Systems recommends that you have a complete backup before you
undertake any modifications to any system's operating system. This can be
accomplished by making a backup of system files by using Export Registry File
Option within the File Menu of Regedit or by copying the system files 
(system.dat and user.dat both are system, hidden, read-only) located in 
the Windows directory before running REGEDIT.