>>>>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...
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>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.
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>Is there some setting in NT equivalent to W3.x and W9.x's win.ini, in [font substitutes], where you could say
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>Courier CE=Courier New,238
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>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.

There's a [fonts] section in Win.INI in the NT directory; try putting it there.