hi,

I'm new to this. I have a issue with ActiveX [and I hope I'll be able to put it across well technically].

The issue is like this.

In the DB the unit of measure is written in French [which uses a special character, not present on an English keyboard "é"]

Now the first time the screen opens up correctly [since we are translating the text using custom code] but AS SOON AS THE USER CLICKS ON THE GRID TO OPEN IT UP FOR EDITING THE CHARACTER "é" IS REPLACED BY AN UNDERSCORE "_" .

Can this be an issue with the way ActiveX trying to translate "é" internally and failing to do so? [MSDN says Visual Basic Locale setting is always English US..some clue here?]

more importantly any way to resolve this without removing the special character from the DB?

Please help.

Thanks