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- Organization: University of Maine System
- Date: Tuesday, 5 Jan 1993 11:26:12 EST
- From: <HAWES@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
- Message-ID: <93005.112612HAWES@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: dBASE IV and foreign language
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- About six months ago, I posted a query regarding sorting and/or
- indexing on mixed French/English text. I was looking for a way
- to correctly sort a mixed French/English bibliographic database
- in which extended ASCII accented characters were used for French
- citations.
-
- One responder, apparently a programmer for Ashton-Tate, said that
- he had been involved in preparing version 1.5 of dBASE IV, and
- that that version would accommodate "foreign language" characters.
- I suggested that I get a copy of dBASE IV 1.5.
-
- Universities work slowly, but I now have dBASE IV 1.5. What I no
- longer have is the information on how to configure it to work with
- extended ASCII French language text.
-
- I would be very grateful if that programmer (or anyone else) could
- give me a hand with this problem.
-
- Apologies all around for having been so careless with my mail...
-
- Nicholas Hawes
- Acadian Archives/Archives acadiennes
- University of Maine at Fort Kent
- Fort Kent, ME 04704
- hawes@maine.maine.edu
-