>>>>Is there any way I can translate English into Russian and vice versa within VFP for example by being able to call Babylon software to do this for me
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>>>>Any ideas?
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>>>>In addition I would like to be able to convert English character set into Russian character set and vice versa - have done this before but have forgotten how to do it
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>>>For your second question try using translit.ru website.
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>>>For the first, perhaps automating Google Translate?
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>>Naomi - thanks for the quick response - how would you automate Google translate?
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>I have no idea - I think you may want to research if Google exposes API for that.

Thanks I'll let you know