Borislav

Thanks for that

You say 'You are right, with one note, you must be sure you import Russian strings in Table with CP-1251, or import these strings in binary fields (Memo or Char).'

I have not had to import with the Russian CP-1251 or use binary fields - I just import a spreadsheet which is in Russian and the table text fields have the same Russian Characters.

I have seen the comment that you made once b4 and I am surprised that having set the language on the machine I don't need to do more - if you want to send me a piece of Russian text as an Excel SS by email to
colin@colin-northway.com - I'll email you back the table I create with a simple import

Thanks for yor help

Colin

>On top of myy head (see inline comments)
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>>Hi
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>>Following on from a thread posted recently about how to impport Russian date into a FoxPro table I have arrived at the following conclusion. I would like anyone with more knowledge and experience of this sort of problem to comment and agree or disagree please
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>>The native language setting of the Windows XP machine I am using is English. I have gone into regional setting in the control panel and selected advanced and then where it says 'Select a language to match the language version of the non-unicode programs you want to use' I have selected the Russian language
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>Yes, this must be done, if you want to see any Russian (or other language that not use Latyn alfabet)
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>>>If I do the above it seems that any table that I create or append into will automatically be able to store Russian as well as English characters and will print to any suitable printer in either language - in other words I have created a dual language machine and VFP thus is dual language
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>You are right, with one note, you must be sure you import Russian strings in Table with CP-1251, or import these strings in binary fields (Memo or Char).
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>>Are there any downside aspects to this such as speed reduction - my main table is about 500,000 records?
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>No downside, just set all Colations to MACHINE.
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>>Any comments would be welcome
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>>Thanks
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>>Colin
>>Colin