>I have one question. I have a VFP 5 app installed at a customer site in Brussels. It interacts with Word, and before that there's a scanner that gets the data into the appropriate tables. When they run a scan batch for Slovenian people, characters are not recognized and we get strange ones instead... It's not a big deal since it's only a few fields. We defined the Word document with the Arial CE and retouch the final result in Word. I am not used to Arial CE. If I replace in VFP the current font for the name, by example, with arial CE, I suspect I'll be able to enter the data for Slovenian people appropriately. But what for the others? They also have German and French customers. Any light?

You may want to buy Recognita, Hungarian OCR pack, which is extremely good with mid-european diacriticals. It knows languages :)

As for your data, VFP uses the font of the machine's codepage. You should... umm, we've discussed this before, and I'm afraid I may forget. Find "ACP" and "OEMCP" in the registry, and check which .nls files are mentioned for 1250, then make sure these files exist in windows system directory, export this key before making changes, and then put 1250 instead of 1252 into the ACP key. You may need to add multilanguage support for central Europe, and you may experience problems with .fon files - you may ask your Slovenian friends to send you theirs. They are using exactly the same charset as I do, and I know what I've had trouble with. Reboot, and hope for the best. If your screen is messed up, it's the .fon files - you should reboot to command prompt, and run REGEDIT from it with the saved registry key as a parameter, to restore the 1252, and then boot back into Windows - the data for Slovenian will show up bad in VFP.

Arial CE is just an alias into a 1250 code page which is in-built (among others) into the standard arial.ttf - if your Arial has more than 100K, it's multipage font. You can find these aliases in win.ini, you can even define some of yours for other multipage fonts (like Garamond and Tahoma, which get installed with Office 97).

You may also add Slovenian keyboard layout.