Unicode : CRVS2010 Beginner's Issues

[Former Member]

Unicode

No problem so far working in the Main Report window.

But, switching to Main Report Preview, I do not get SQL fields correctly rendered.

Unicode characters become square blocks, and empty fields show "#####".

I have worked with VS2010 for several months, and Unicode has never posed any problem.

Q: Am I missing something required to configure Unicode for CR?

ps. Recreated from as advised by Ludek Uher.

[former_member11696 · Accepted solution]

Hi Cedric,

The Viewer in the IDE is a COM viewer and may have issues with unicode characters, it's old technology.

Try using the CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms to view the report and see if you still have the same problem.

What OS are you using?

Thank you

Don

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

@Don Williams

Thank you!

Is "Viewer in the IDE" an element of VS2010 or of CR?

I do not yet know how to use CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms to view the report, but shall certainly try your suggestion when my learning reaches that area.

Meanwhile, my OS is Windows 7 x64 en-us.

[ted_ueda]

Square blocks are typically font issues, and not character encoding issues.

If there's no glyph for the character found in the font set, common behavior is to replace with empty square block glyph.

Sincerely,

Ted Ueda

[Former Member]

@Ted Ueda

Thank you!

I have little knowledge about glyph in font set.

Would these screenshots tell whether glyph is missing?

ListView rendering

http://yfrog.com/dy101119182941p 53KB

CR Main Report Preview

http://yfrog.com/77101119182953p 49KB

[former_member11696]

Hello,

Can I suggest you start off with our samples...

Root Page

http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/BusinessObjectsHome

Enterprise Samples (including managed and unmanaged ras)

http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/BusinessObjectsSDKSampleApplications

Non-Enterprise Samples

http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/CrystalReportsSDKSampleApplications

Exporting Samples (RAS)

http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/NETRASSDK+Samples#NETRASSDKSamples-Exporting%2FPrinting

Thank you

Don

[ted_ueda]

Your screenshot implies you're trying to print out Unicode Basic Latin control characters, that don't have a glyph.

(http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf)

Sincerely,

Ted Ueda

[Former Member]

@Don Williams

I appreciate your great suggestions.

Shall try and work through the samples.

Thank you very much.

[Former Member]

@Ted Ueda

You are correct.

The first page are control characters without glyph.

I now see Unicode characters showing on subsequent pages.

Thank you for you clarification.