>Hi Tore, I tried STRCONV() but it doesn't help.
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>I must add that the tables are FoxPro 2x type. And they are not marked with any codepage.

So Fox considers them to be of the system's codepage.
You can mark them, the codepages were intruduced in FPD2.6 in 1994, check out cpzero.prg somewhere in the tools directory.