* Changed symbol in notes

[GeorgeBush]

The attached image read £320.7s.when I created a note to a probate event. I think the change occurred when I upgraded from V.5 to V.6, although I cannot be certain, and I have found many such examples. When I come across one such, I emend the unknown (to me) symbol to "£" - without the quotes. I would like to write a query to find and emend all remaining instances at once but I have no idea what to call these strange symbols. Any ideas, anyone?

[tatewise]

The upset is probably due to the change from ANSI in FH V5 to UNICODE in FH V6.
Maybe your PC was not using the standard character encoding for £ sign and it translates to what I think is the UNICODE Replacement character (black diamond with question mark).

You don't need to write anything, just use the Edit > Find and Replace command.
Copy & Paste the rogue character into Search For box and put £ in the Replace With box.

[GeorgeBush]

Thanks for the suggestion, Mike. I tried cropping the original image so that I was left with just the symbol. However, when Itried to paste it into the "find" box all I got was a big fat blank. In fact, I can't paste it into anything. Nor can I find it in any of the character sets available in Windows 7, although since it has appeared in my records several times, it must be there somewhere. I think I will just write it off and continue altering the symbol if it ever turns up again.

George

[AdrianBruce]

This may be a daft suggestion - but are you sure there's nothing there? Somewhere in the back of my mind I've pasted stuff into the Find part of a Find / Replace dialog, and while there's nothing visible, when I hit Find, well, it does find something. Though I'm unclear what it might look like.... But it does Replace it OK.

I can't test this particular case so I'm relying on suspicion..... And it might not even be FH that I remember it happening in...

Just a suggestion.

[tatewise]

I may have misunderstood you, but you cannot get a 'character' by 'cropping' a .jpg image! It is still just a 'photo' of the character and NOT the character itself.

You have to copy & paste the character from the Note box within FH, where you say you can replace/delete the character and enter the £ sign.

BTW: I found the odd character right at the end of the Tahoma character set, but it could not be copied. I suspect what you are seeing is a representation of another character code that has no defined presentation in its font set, so displays what you see.

[DavidNewton]

BTW: I found the odd character right at the end of the Tahoma character set, but it could not be copied. I suspect what you are seeing is a representation of another character code that has no defined presentation in its font set, so displays what you see.

Spot on see http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode ... /index.htm

David