>>CPDBF() # CPCurrent() ?
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>Possible, but highly unlikely. This is a local small business that would never have had any reason to change codepages.
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>Okay, checked on my local copy of their data and that's not it. Since my copy came from directly copying theirs to my machine, unlikely it's different there.
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>But good idea, so thanks.

It's still possible that their windows codepage for non-unicode apps is not 1252 (for various possible reasons, perhaps the user is a translator), and if in fox the codepage=auto. And that wouldn't be included in the copy.