>Hi All,
>
>I have a simple encryption/decryption routine that uses sys(15) to translate username and password based on the ASCII English US table. Occasionally, the translation fails in spite of the fact that it's the correct language and keyboard setting.
>Can someone tell me what other elements would affect this, like code page, font etc?
>This happened in Vista but has happened in all OS's going back to Win 98.
>
>Thanks,
>Luke

You could use STRCONV() for simple encryption (veery simple :-):

lcPassWord = [SomePassWOrd]
lcEncrypted = STRCONV(lcPassWord ,13)
? lcEncrypted
? STRCONV(lcEncrypted ,14)