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

Just an update: it works now, three days later for no apparent reason. I've just built a new .exe and copied it over the installed one, that's all. And the machine was rebooted a couple of times meanwhile. Beats me.