Just change your regional settings to support arabic (Non-Unicode Applications) and import all strings from Excel to Char or Memo Binary fields.

>Hi everybody,
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>I'm using custom function to convert Excel file into DBF. Bellow is the code of this function. Mohammed sent me an Excel file with text in arabic in one of the columns. When I converted it into DBF, Arabic characters became ???
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>What should I do to make dbf respect different codepage and how can I make my function generic enough to handle conversion automatically?
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>Appreciate your response very much.
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>Thanks in advance.
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