Strange Characters in Note Windows

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Posted on by KirkLivermont

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I just had a user ask me about some strange characters appearing in certain GP Windows. I opened a note window and happened to try a couple of key combinations that they mentioned they thought might be creating these. Pressing Ctrl-Shift-L and Ctrl-Shift-N results in strange characters in my note window which I have never seen before.

Any one know what is causing these strange characters or what they are?

We don't use any unique keyboard layouts and have no international users.

Thank you,

Kirk

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KirkLivermont 5,985 on at

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RE: Strange Characters in Note Windows

Tim,

Thank you for the great answer. Mystery solved.

Kirk
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Tim Wappat 5,703 on at

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RE: Strange Characters in Note Windows

I get that too, for example I can make these with CTRL+ various keys:

So long as GP has not been programmed with a hot key for that combination, then it will insert the ASCII character code according to the following chart below, something harking back to the early days of computing and dot matrix printers...

For example CTRL+P will cause print dialog to launch as it is a mapped key, but CTRL+L will cause a Form Feed character (0C) to be inserted into the edit window. As these can not be displayed, they just show as strange characters. If you also add SHIFT it seems to allow the entering of the character even if it is mapped to something else.

0 00/00 00 00 NUL (Ctrl-@) NULL 1 00/01 01 01 SOH (Ctrl-A) START OF HEADING 2 00/02 02 02 STX (Ctrl-B) START OF TEXT 3 00/03 03 03 ETX (Ctrl-C) END OF TEXT 4 00/04 04 04 EOT (Ctrl-D) END OF TRANSMISSION 5 00/05 05 05 ENQ (Ctrl-E) ENQUIRY 6 00/06 06 06 ACK (Ctrl-F) ACKNOWLEDGE 7 00/07 07 07 BEL (Ctrl-G) BELL (Beep) 8 00/08 10 08 BS (Ctrl-H) BACKSPACE 9 00/09 11 09 HT (Ctrl-I) HORIZONTAL TAB 10 00/10 12 0A LF (Ctrl-J) LINE FEED 11 00/11 13 0B VT (Ctrl-K) VERTICAL TAB 12 00/12 14 0C FF (Ctrl-L) FORM FEED 13 00/13 15 0D CR (Ctrl-M) CARRIAGE RETURN 14 00/14 16 0E SO (Ctrl-N) SHIFT OUT 15 00/15 17 0F SI (Ctrl-O) SHIFT IN 16 01/00 20 10 DLE (Ctrl-P) DATA LINK ESCAPE 17 01/01 21 11 DC1 (Ctrl-Q) DEVICE CONTROL 1 (XON) 18 01/02 22 12 DC2 (Ctrl-R) DEVICE CONTROL 2 19 01/03 23 13 DC3 (Ctrl-S) DEVICE CONTROL 3 (XOFF) 20 01/04 24 14 DC4 (Ctrl-T) DEVICE CONTROL 4 21 01/05 25 15 NAK (Ctrl-U) NEGATIVE ACKNOWLEDGE 22 01/06 26 16 SYN (Ctrl-V) SYNCHRONOUS IDLE 23 01/07 27 17 ETB (Ctrl-W) END OF TRANSMISSION BLOCK 24 01/08 30 18 CAN (Ctrl-X) CANCEL 25 01/09 31 19 EM (Ctrl-Y) END OF MEDIUM 26 01/10 32 1A SUB (Ctrl-Z) SUBSTITUTE 27 01/11 33 1B ESC (Ctrl-[) ESCAPE 28 01/12 34 1C FS (Ctrl-\) FILE SEPARATOR 29 01/13 35 1D GS (Ctrl-]) GROUP SEPARATOR 30 01/14 36 1E RS (Ctrl-^) RECORD SEPARATOR 31 01/15 37 1F US (Ctrl-_) UNIT SEPARATOR
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RE: Strange Characters in Note Windows

Hi Kirk,

Do you have any integration project that could cause those charaters to show up in the Notes window ? could it be that a user is running some macros to integrate data and opens by accident the Notes windows... ?

Those 2 shortcutes can have very different purpose, depending on the context they are used, but in GP itself, there is no use for it AFAIK. Maybe someone meant to use CTRL-L & CTRL-N.. without the SHIFT ?