>>How popular is Foxpro in China? When I was in Nanning in 1999, I found Foxpro for DOS books in simplified Chinese in a small bookstore.
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>Marie -
>When I was in BeiJing in 1999, I bought a VFP6 Programmer's Reference Guide with CD. The CD was a VFP6 installation set, codepage = simplified Chinese.
>I never installed it, but used the book when we got in resumes from developers in China - I'd go to some page, and fire off an email - "what's on page 219 and why is it important?" if i didn't get any response, then I felt the developer was full of bull...
>mondo regards [Bill]

Bill,
I think it's not a fair way of deciding how good a developer is. If say you bought a book in Turkey and asked me the same question I wouldn't response too simply because I never bought a Turkish book on computing :) Should I be considered as knowing nothing about Foxpro ?
Of course if the job is way important to me I could go and buy one but in that case too I wonder if I would understand a Turkish version Fox documentation at all though Turkish is my mother language ( you know what I don't use and understand Turkish Windows or Office and first translate to English to get what it's trying to say in a dialog :) Probably I would request you to ask the same question with location on MSDN online help.
Cetin