>You are going to have a problem. VFP only legacy flaw is a lack of Unicode support. Using code pages seems like it would work, but VFP only allows a designated code page if the machine is running Windows with that code page. IOW the purpose of the code page support is so if you run VFP on Russian Windows you can store data properly -- it is not designed to facilitate multi-lingual mixed language applications.
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>It is confusing because Windows will let you enter Russian characters, but then VFP does not properly store them. You cannot mix code pages in VFP.
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>It is a little more complicated and a little easier than I am describing it, I suggest you look at Rick Strahl's article on these issues at http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/foxunicode/foxunicode.asp.
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>>i am trying to enter russian characters into my table,
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>>i have given the command
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>>codepage=1250 in config.fpw
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>>and in my startup main program
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>>set collate="RUSSIAN"
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>>but i still get ???? instead of the russian characters
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>>also when i compile into an EXE and take it to another machine i get the collate not found error
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>>what am i doing wrong ?

My answer will be more simple Nikki, :)

I developed VFP applications for Russia.

Control Panel->Region and Language->manage->nonunicode applications language->Russian

Note: I'm using a turkish Windows, so I might be did translation errors, also I use Windows 7, these words a bit different in other Windows versions too...