Colin,

"Russian database", do you mean table? What are field types there?
"US/UK database", do you mean table? What are field types there?

Probably you need binary_character/ binary_memo fields in the table where you append to.

>Yuri
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>That all worked very well - thank you
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>Now I have another question
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>I have a US/UK database and a separate Russian database - if I try and append Russian data to the US datanase I lose the Russian character (even if I just cut & paste)
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>Do you think it is possible to have just 1 database which can represent all characters?
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>Thanks
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>Colin
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