Importing Degree Symbol Into Filepro

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at spamcop.net
Wed Jan 25 08:28:18 PST 2017


On 1/25/2017 10:32 AM, Scott Walker via Filepro-list wrote:
> I'm importing data from an Excel file.  The Excel data includes the degree
> symbol in some of the part descriptions.  Filepro does not like that.
> Neither does vi.
>
> Any thoughts on the best way to convert the degree symbol to the text "deg".
>
> Would it be better to do this to the data outside of filepro (before I
> import it) or would it be better to handle inside fp.

How, exactly, is the degree symbol encoded in the CSV file?

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Kenneth Brody


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