>Hi Gang!
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>Strange thing here.
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>I am working on some reports that print out in English and Spanish. The English reports work fine.
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>The Spanish ones give some strange output.
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>The data comes from a Third-party datasource that outputs strings in plain text. Each line of text is output to one long string and then saved to a memo file.
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>I now have the code written that gets each memo field and outputs it to a report field (formated with a font and size).
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>Here is the problem.
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>The text prints as garbage as TrueType fonts but looks fine as FoxFont.
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>Here is a sample.
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>DE ESTA MEDICINA, t¢mela lo antes posible. Si falta poco tiempo para su pr¢xima dosis, deje de usar la dosis que olvid¢ y vuelva a su anterior planificaci¢n de las dosis. No tome 2 dosis a la vez.
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>So, any clues?

Actually, that looks quite familiar to me (sigh).

The problem is likely related to codepage translations, especially between DOS and Windows. Perhaps the text involved was saved using a DOS (as opposed to Windows) codepage. Check the following: How does the text file look if you open it it Notepad? Try to translate from codepage 850, or perhaps 471 (?) to a Windows codepage.

Also, sometimes you must make sure that tables involved are marked with the Windows codepage - or with the DOS codepage, if the table is from the third-party tool.