>>Remember to use the double-byte character compatible functions (lenc(), at_c(), etc.)
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>It's the double byte character issue that I am worried about at the moment.
>If I have a character 8 field in a table will it become a C4 or does VFP 'know' to extend the space required if the codepage is set to chinese.

Any of the roman characters will take one byte, the Chinese ideograms will take 2 bytes. Ideograms pack a lot on meaning into each symbol therefore, Chinese text tends to take little space. You may not need to resize the tables.

If this were English to Russian, you would have more trouble.