Display Special Characters in CATIA V4 Model Names on NT

 


In CATIA V4 the forbidden characters in UNIX filenaming has been substituted by
special characters. Especially Blank has been substituted by ± (Plus Minus). 

For sharing data between UNIX and NT we tested the following products in the 
IDSICC Interoperability Center:
IBM FastConnect, SAMBA, Intergraph DiskAcess, Hummingbird Maestro, Novell NFSGateway.

But only IBM FastConnect and DiskAcess from Intergraph has been able to display 
the special characters in the right way, and only with this products we could open
the V4 data in V5 Side Navigator. 

After changing the CodePage in NT-Registry and the Font in DOS command, we have been
successful to open V4 Models on every tested integration product.

How ToDo the changes:
1. Change CodePage with regedit 
2. 
3.        HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage
4. 
5.        change   ACP   and  OEMCP   to:
6.                  
7.                            ACP         1252
8.                            OEMCP       1252
9.                   
10. 
11.         do the same in:
12. 
13.         HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Nls\CodePage
14. 
15.         HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\Nls\CodePage
16. 
17.         after this changes reboot your system.
        
18. Only DOS-Box and if installed ksh prompt from MKS Toolkit is affected 
by the changes in regedit. To fix do the following: 
o open a MSDOS window 
o open properties 
o select Font Tab 
o switch to Lucida Console and size 14 (maybe check bold option) 
o save with OK and store with all links option 
After this changes we have been able to access V4 Data on UNIX with SMB-Protocoll 
(FastConnect* ,SAMBA) 
and on NFS with NOVELL(NFSGateway), Hummingbird(Maestro) and DiskAccess* from Intergraph.

* This Products already worked before Registry changes. 

Known Problems:
When running an old DOS application which supports only PC ASCII codes (437, 850, ..) 
we had problems whith the special NLS characters like German Umlaut. But we are work on this. 







 
 
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