>>>I'd assume that the behavior of VFP's runtime uses the setting controlled from there as long as you issue SET SYSFORMATS ON. The locale stuff is user-specific, and the settings selected for one user should have no effect on the file system as shared, or on Services which don't run in the context of the currently logged-in user. Just make sure that the secretary isn't logging in as Administrator to access her phone book...
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>>She's got the powers of Administrator... I mean, if she asks for something, nobody has the heart to refuse :)
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>NOT THE SAME THING (thank gawd.) Administrator 'owns' the files system, so the file system may inherit some of Administrator's locale-specific information. i don't know anywhere near enough about NT internationalization to make a good call on this; I've got a bit more knowledge about Win9x because we have editorial-types who use the Japanese and Korean versions of Win98 and IE on a regular bassis, since we publish books on the Far East...

I've changed bot the locale, and the ACP (Ansi codepage) entry in the Registry of the server, but still no cigar. The VFP app still shows ae ligature instead of c-acute, and the Icelandic eth instead of d-hyphen etc etc. The collate sequence is OK, everything is OK, it's just the fonts, which display as 1252 instead of 1250.

Is there some setting in NT equivalent to W3.x and W9.x's win.ini, in [font substitutes], where you could say

Courier CE=Courier New,238

This one worked for W3.x apps which needed to run under W9x. It's my last trick to try before giving this one up.