>>>>>My code is
>>>>>
>>>>>newchars=strconv(a,10,1251,1)
>>>>>
>>>>>where a is an excel cell with a value of Присяжнюк Александр
>>>>>
>>>>>Can you help please
>>>>
>>>>My serious doubts that you can implement the Russian rules of translation into Latin. First of all, the e umlaut is always written without it, so it may translate as a ye or e or yo or o. Even if you managed to translate to utf-8 first, you'd then have to translate each double character into something. You may end with about 80 to 120 strtran() functions applied in some order of precedence... and even then I'm not sure the results would adhere to the rules correctly. And then there are doubts whether the results would pronounce anywhere near correctly in English. If it's for addresses only, it may pass.
>>>>
>>>>You may look for Russian to Latin transcription rules, there's an old standard developed in USSR that must be hanging around somewhere.
>>>
>>>www.translit.ru can easily convert in two directions.
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>>Thanks Naomi but I have a file of 130 Russian addresses which I need to add to a dbf do a bit of processing and print them - how do I do it?
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>Have you tried to create a DBF with character binary and append to this file from Excel? If this will not work, insert to SQL Server database and get the data from it.

I have tried that - think it's a problem with the excel file - I am abandoning the attempt - thanks for your help