>>>>>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.
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>>>>Thanks for your help - I got a Russian shipping agent to English the names and addresses
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>>>I moved the data into SQL Server database and the data are properly shown there in nvarchar columns. Unfortunately, when I try to get them with SQLEXEC back, I see ??? instead of Russian.
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>>>I think it should be an easy problem to solve, but I don't have too much time right now. I'll check later tonight.
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>>THanks a lot
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>Basically we're continuing to diuscuss it in private with Boris, I need to try it with CA (not with SQLExec). But I just really don't have much time to continue working on this.

If you think its easily solved in Foxpro you should read this

http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/foxunicode/foxunicode.asp