>For one client, I need to convert FoxPro to Visual FoxPro. For now, I won't be making a major redesign - just checking for compatibility and aesthetics.
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>Some special characters are output to the screen, for borders, lines, and such; how do I convert that? If I open the program with:
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>MODIFY COMMAND abc.prg AS 850 && or some similar codepage
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>I see the characters correctly, but what do I do next? Just "Save as..."?

Codepage is in the eye of the beholder, i.e. the compiler. The 850 is the DOS codepage for, IIRC, Latin1 (i.e. western extended). Here's what I used in the similar scenario with the corresponding pair of codepages for central european codepages:

Strtofile(Cpconv(852, 1250, Filetostr(fajl)),fajl)

I guess you'd have 850 and 1252 for western, or 855 and 1251 for cyrillic etc. In my case I was overwriting a copy of the file (the original being safely stored elsewhere).

What I said about the compiler - it may translate a character string properly between 850 and 1252, and display it correctly, but a variable containing one of the converted characters in its name may not be recognized outside of that prg, so it's far better that all the files in a project be of the same codepage. It also slows building the project a lot if they aren't.