Characters not displaying in Reports

[Matthew]

Hi I have a problem where certain characters are not displaying when i print
reports.

An example of the characters would be:
ĨħĪĩÄċ‹ēĖĖÄÄœ

which when they are printed within the report come out as:
??????‹?????

Is there any reason for it doing this?
Is there any way to get the report to display these characters?

The reason I would like the characters displayed is due to the Romanian
language using some of those said characters.

"Are you sick" becomes "eÅŸti tu bolnav?" where the 'ÅŸ' is displayed as '?'

Thank you very much in advance

 

[Anthos]

If this is just when you print the report, and not when you view it
then the most likely problem is font subsitution in your printer.
Basicly your printer doesn't know how to print those characters, and
as such replaces them with ?

To fix this, goto the printers in Control panel,
then depending on your printer you are either looking for Font
Substitution, or alternatively, turning on Send True type fonts as
Bitmap.

Please let me know if this resolves your issue.

Kind Regards
Anthony Moore

 

[Larry Linson]

If those characters are not displaying properly either on-screen or when
printed, then you need to determine if the fonts you have chosen include
those characters? Not every font includes all characters, though the
probability they are included increases if you are using Unicode fonts.
Recent versions of Access support Unicode -- what version of Access are you
using?

You have already had an answer to investigate if they display properly
on-screen, but not when printed.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP

 

[Matthew]

Thank you for your responses, it turned out that the problem was to do with
leban's RTF control.
I missed the problem yesterday since it was displaying correctly on the
forms where we were using the RTF control. On reports however we use a plain
text copy and the control was making the substitution when we pulled that
text.

So my solution is to use the RTF control in the reports also and not to use
any plain text anywhere.