>>&& 1251 Cyrillic : Russian alphabet
>>&& 1252 Latin I : Western Europe – includes Scandinavia
>>output = Strconv(input, 9, 1251, 1)
>>
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>This'll not work. He should do what Borislav said. I use turkish language which is not in 857 ASCII char set. I have to do set turkish for non-unicode applications. Alessio either should do this for russian. Because VFP is a non-unicode compatible application. Also notepad is a non-unicode compatible application.

Notepad can work with and save Unicode files. A while back I remember parsing log files in VFP which didn't initially work as expected because they were Unicode (2 bytes per character instead of 1 [ANSI]). I was checking the files in Notepad and they looked OK so I was wondering what was going on.