>Hi Richard
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>It seems that the problem is being caused by foxfont. There is no £ symbol in this font and ALT+0163 represents an umlaut in foxfont.
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>Can you tell me how I can stop the darn system from using foxfont - I don't use it. I have looked at all the SET commands and TOOLS/OPTIONS without success. I can see some settings in the registry but am loath to start mucking around with that unless I have to.
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>This is very frustrating

You can set the screen output font with:

_SCREEN.fontname = "My Font" && whatever you fontname is.

Is this what you are asking? Code edit windows and the varioue designers use fonts that are specified by rith clicking in the edit window and choosing properties and clicking the change font button. These preferences are all stored in your foxuser.dbf.

To have the _screen.FontName set automatically for you everytime you start VFP, you need to specify a startup program in your config.fpw, and put the above command in that program. To specify a startup program, put:

COMMAND = DO 'C:\Program files\VFP\VFPSTART.PRG' or whatever your startup program is.

I hope this helps.