>>Your responsible for your own response encoding.
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>>This is a big problem with Visual FoxPro because it can only encode into one language at a time and that language is what's running on your machine as the OEM character set.
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>>One workaround for this is to encode your page in UTF-8 assuming you have loaded the character data correctly.
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>I have converted the application to .NET. In that environment, the characters are being shown as ? for all those foreign characters. So, it does not handle it automatically as well. Unless there is a setting somewhere that I am missing.

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