>>Hi
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>>I'm in the middle of building an international zip code file as part of a major project for an International Courier Company. Portuguese town names are giving me some problems.
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>>Cais de São Pedro and Campanário contain characters which on an English system don't make sense. Anyone got any bright ideas for 'internationalising' these characters so that they make sense in both Portuguese and English
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>>Thanks
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>>Colin
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>I'm not sure this will work, but have you tried using STRCONV() to convert it to the corresponding UTF-8 encoded?

I thought of that but my problem is knowing what to convert them to - in the meantime I have written a VFP program which scans the database of towns for any town containing ASCII code greater that 150 - it then Googles the zip code to give me the town name in clear which I then paste back into the database - a bit slow but quite fun

Thanks for your help