Getting Extra Characters When Printing High ASCII Characters

Problem

Getting extra characters when printing high ASCII characters. For example: Data contains ® and prints ®

Explanation

Caused by field properties not being properly set to print these characters.

Solution

To resolve this issue, enable the language wizard for the field that will be printing these characters. The Language Properties Wizard can be accessed through the field "Properties" window. 

  1. To open the Language Properties Wizard, click the word Default and then click the ellipse [...].
  2. Click Next.
  3. Select Non-Asian and then click Next.
  4. Leave the default character set (ANSIClosed American National Standards Institute, a non-governmental organization responsible for the coordination of voluntary national (United States) standards.) and then click Next.

  5. Leave the font set to Arial, change the Data Format to Unicode UTF-8 and then click Next.
  6. Click Finish.

Note

It will be important that the incoming data file (i.e. pas, xml, csv...) be formatted UTF-8. If the data is coming from an ODBC data source you may need to change the data format in the Language Properties Wizard to UTF-16.