Raymond,

Check the function below, it works very nicely when converting from Portuguese and Spanish characters.

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FUNCTION RemoveAccents(tcStringInput) 
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LOCAL lcStringFilterIn, lcStringFilterOut, lcStringOutput 
lcStringFilterIn  = "ÁÉÍÓÚáéíóúÀÈÌÒÙàèìòùÂÊÎÔÛâêîôûÄËÏÖÜäëïöüÃÕãõÇçÑñº" 
lcStringFilterOut = "AEIOUaeiouAEIOUaeiouAEIOUaeiouAEIOUaeiouAOaoCcNno" 
lcStringOutput = CHRTRAN(tcStringInput, lcStringFilterIn, lcStringFilterOut) 
RETURN (lcStringOutput) 
ENDFUNC

Hope this helps

Cesar