>Hello Martina and thanks for reply. I'm not using a remote view nor binary memos. I am just trying to understand why these particular Chinese character data (inherited from an Access MDB file) are causing the crash. The same data typed in do not cuase a problem. It's not my app as the error occurs when opening a memo in a simple browse screen. Perhaps someone else has encountered a similar problem? Ta, Denis

Then try to change the table structure and set that memo to binary (i.e. nocptrans if you're doing that from the command line). It could be that VFP is trying to convert the text into your current codepage and runs into trouble. Setting it to binary should prevent the conversion - it basically tells Fox to not touch anything in it.

And you'd actually need to repopulate the table, because it's possible that some of this conversion happened when the records were appended.