>I have a simple program - consists of a single line of code. Messagebox("hello world")
>Compile it (or not)... Run it. It should work pretty good (what can go wrong?).
>Now, go into the control panel, language, change location. Change the location to Jordan or Oman, any country that speaks Arabic. Now, on the Administrative tab, change the system local to Oman or Jordan. You'll have to reboot. Now try to get back into VFP or run the compile you made up in step #1.
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>I can change the language/location to French/Spanish/English and it works great. But to put it into Arabic, it bombs.
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>Any suggestions?

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