>Hi tracy and dawa,
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>I'm not having trouble to put the translations in. As I already said, I've managed to do 5 languages this way. Yes the languages are already stored in a translation table.
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>My question really is,
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>1. how I would handle chinese characters and how they should been put in.
>2. Does VFP automatically load the chinese DLL?
>3. Does it automatically display the chinese characters?
>4. What do to with IME?
>5. Any other pitfalls or things to think about ?
>
>IOW, I'm a total newbee in creating applications not using western charactersets.

http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/foxunicode/foxunicode.asp, is a white paper written by Rick Strahl dealing with unicode and non-western characters in foxpro , maybe you can benefit from that.