FIX: Beautify May Not Uppercase Extended ASCII Characters

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 5.0, 5.0a

SYMPTOMS

If you run Visual FoxPro's Beautify against code that contains extended ASCII characters, the extended characters may not be set to the proper case.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been corrected in Visual FoxPro 6.0.

MORE INFORMATION

The normal ASCII character set runs from ASCII 33 to ASCII 126, inclusive. Extended ASCII characters are those outside of that range.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Because Microsoft Knowledge Base articles do not support extended ASCII characters, we will place the text in the Windows clipboard through the _CLIPTEXT environment variable, and paste it into a program file from the clipboard. Run the following code after pasting it into the Command window, placing the cursor at the end of the last line, and pressing ENTER:

   
         CLIPTEXT = ;
         "#DEFINE V"+chr(196)+"NSTER 1"+chr(13)+ ;
         "#DEFINE H"+chr(214)+"GER 2"+chr(13)+ ;
         "#DEFINE "+chr(197)+"TER 3"+chr(13)+ ;
         "? v"+chr(228)+"nster"+chr(13)+ ;
         "? h"+chr(246)+"ger"+chr(13)+ ;
         "? "+chr(229)+"ter"+chr(13)+ ;
         "? V"+chr(196)+"NSTER"+chr(13)+ ;
         "? H"+chr(214)+"GER"+chr(13)+ ;
         "? "+chr(197)+"TER" 




2. Paste the contents of the clipboard into a program (.prg) file.



3. Right-click in the Editor window, and select Beautify from the Context menu.



4. In the Beautify Options dialog box, select the "Match first occurrence" in the Symbols drop-down list box, and then click the Run button.
   
   Look at the Editor for the results. The text following one or more of the first 3 ? commands contains a lower case character or characters.



5. From the Edit menu, click Undo.



6. Right-click the Editor Window, and then select Beautify from the Context menu.



7. In the Beautify Options dialog box, select the "UPPERCASE" in the Symbols drop-down list box, and then click the Run button.

REFERENCES

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Contributions by Jim Saunders, Microsoft Corporation

Additional query words: kbVFp600fix kbVFp500abug kbXBase kbMiscTools

Keywords :
Version : WINDOWS:5.0,5.0a
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug