>>>>Here is what I see in afields for this field, what do you think?
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>>>Well, I checked the help - yours must be missing - and the field ( see lafields[1, 6] ) does codepage translation, it should be true
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>>In other words, can I change it to .T. after I already got the data from SQL Server?
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>Set nocptrans to ...
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>Nah - I was wrong, it IS binary since the field type in your afields is Q.
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>And, I do not think it matters, since you are not using a vfp textbox control
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>Would have tested it this afternoon - but I do not see the ms forms text control in the installed ActiveX - do not know why

I believe this control comes with MS Word. See this article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa140269(office.10).aspx

I also see this http://www.foxite.com/archives/how-to-implement-unicode-in-vfp-0000209431.htm but it only talks about showing the data, not how to save the data.