Hi Albert,

Howareya? Sorry for the delay -- I just got back from a trip. [SMB] comments below.

I get the following results with cpcurrent() with these OS/FoxPro combinations:

1) Windows 3.2 Simplified Chinese / FoxPro 2.6a and VFP 3.0b

cpcurrent() = 936
cpcurrent(1) = 936
cpcurrent(2) = 936

[SMB] This looks fine to me since this version of Windows runs on top of DOS. Does your configuration file say CODEPAGE=AUTO or CODEPAGE=936? I'm guessing the latter.


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>1) Windows NT 4.0 Pan Chinese / FoxPro 2.6a
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>cpcurrent() = 0
>cpcurrent(1) = 1252
>cpcurrent(2) = 936
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[SMB] According to Nadine Kano this cpcurrent(2) result is normal (or at least it was in NT 3.51 and I doubt it has changed). IOW this is the expected result under far-eastern versions of Windows NT 3.51 or better. See page 288 of "Developing International Software" (N. Kano, MS Press, ISBN 1-55615-840-8). At this level this is a reference book you need <s>.

Are you successfully displaying Chinese in FP 2.6a? If so, DBCS string length reckoning issues aside, any side-effects?


>1) Windows NT 4.0 Pan Chinese / VFP 3.0b and VFP 5.0a
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>cpcurrent() = 936
>cpcurrent(1) = 936
>cpcurrent(2) = 936
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[SMB] Are these two results taken fron the same NT 4 machine?

>My applications use the active codepage to select the language to display.
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[SMB] That's a cute trick.


>VFP 3.0b generates a GPF in the VFP300.ESL when a form is opened, but VFP 5.0a runs OK.

[SMB] All forms or just a form. Same machine both?

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>The Chinese strings are not displaying properly under VFP 5.0a. I get some Chinese characters mixed with '?' - question marks. We have the same mangled characters with 32bit Borland C++ 5.01 applications.
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>Since Pan Chinese NT supports both Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese with an English Windows front end, are the mangled strings I am getting the result of trying to display Simplified Chinese strings with the Traditional Chinese character set active?
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[SMB] Traditional Chinese is CP 950 and I don't see that anywhere here. Just kick me if I'm missing something.

>Are there any recommendations for tweaking the application's runtime environment to solve these problems?

[SMB] What is the CPDBF()? Really there are only a couple of things that can go wrong here, The font is certainly suspect since you're getting this effect in other packages. If it's not the font, then what are the odds that an inadvertant CP translation has happened here. Where does the data come from?

**--** Steve