>>I'm in my first foray into international stuff and I have this problem with the currency symbol.
>>
>>I set regional options (OS) to English UK and saw it show the £ as the currency symbol.
>>Then I re-booted.
>>Then I SET CURRENCY TO '£' in my program.
>>
>>Some numeric fields in my report are:
>>- 'formatted as "currency", giving a @$ in their format box
>>- have a floating dollar sign defined too.
>>
>>Yet when these print they give the trusted dollar sign instead of the £!?!?
>>
>>What do I have to do to get a £ to print?
>>
>>Thanks in advance
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>what you look into a textbox object ?
>what is
>

>? TRANSFORM($123.45,"@$")
>

Hi Fabio,

It looks fine that way, but not as

TRANSFORM(m.MyTotal, "@$ $,$$$,$99.99")

It appears that it is the $ in the mask field that messes it up. replacing the $ in the mask with 9s seems to do the trick.
Thanks for putting me on the right track, Fabio.
I never would have guess that.