Yuri

Borislav Borissov sent me a Russian text file. I was able to import it into VFP without specifying a code page

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

That is all I did b4 I imported the file

Thanks for your help

Colin

>>Sorry I mean table
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>>I'm sure there is a way of mixing for eg a US data with Russian data without resorting to special fields
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>Therefore I encourage you to check the field types first to see whether they are the same. If fields are of diffenet types, you may loose the information when appending.
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>You also may send to me SAMPLES of both tables to reproduce the behavior; I will review what is wrong.
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>>Thanks
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>>Colin