What do you use to generate the pdf. Adobe Writer or Distiller. Writer has problems with these characters, Distiller does not.

Regards,

Ron

>Hi Everyone,
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>Someone helped out with this 6 months ago when my VFP app was sending accented characters to a text file that Adobe was then opening and importing. At that time, the character was the accented e (é). Someone pointed me to this code which worked:
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>STORE STRCONV(lcOldChar,1) TO lcNewChar
>STORE STRCONV(lcNewChar,9) TO lcNewChar
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>which essentially I used to convert the VFP data to double-byte chars and then to UTF-8 chars (which is what the xml/text file is in that Adobe uses).
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>This worked for quite a while until some user entered an accented z (ž - made with Alt+0158) and somehow the above process translates it to a bunch of chars:
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>ž
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>Which Adobe chokes on and does not translate back to the ž.
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>Anyone have any ideas of how to get around this?
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>Thanks,
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>Albert Gostick