>Dear Cetin Basoz
>
>Suppose I have a table with two fields, PName and EName. The contents of the field Pname is customer name with the Persian (or Arabic) characters and the contents of the field Ename is same names in English.
>The following setting should be made at the beginning of the program to properly index Persian names.
>SET COLLATE TO "ARABIC"
>
>I indexed the table based on Pname and Ename.
>I have put this file in a shared folder on windows XP.
>I run the following commands:
>
>SET OREDR TO TAG PNAME
>BROWSE
>
>SET ORDER TO TAG ENAME
>BROWSE
>
>So everything is right here.
>
>But if I connect to the shared folder with a Windows 7 client, the following result is achieved.
>
>SET OREDR TO TAG PNAME
>BROWSE ( wrong result )
>
>SET ORDER TO TAG ENAME
>BROWSE ( Correct result )
>
>Now if I put my table in a shared folder on windows 7 and reindex it, all results is correct. On windows 7 and from windows XP client.
>
>Why is this happening?

I have no idea. I don't use any collating other than Machine. I know you get erroneous results with collate Turkish and thus I never trust collate.