Hi Ricardo,

I noticed with interest that you mentioned localized runtime versions of VFP7.0, I know that my question doesn't relate to VFP7 but to VFP6, but I was hoping that you may be able to help me anyway.

I've written a Multilingual App that houses Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Roman Character Data. I wanted to write the App in VFP6 but couldn't get the DBCS support to work, so I ended up writing it in ACCESS 2000 and it worked fine.

The following is taken from the VFP6 Online Help:

Visual FoxPro supports DBCS (double-byte character sets) — character sets that
require more than one byte to represent a character. Some examples of languages
that require a double-byte character set are Simplified Chinese, Traditional
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Visual FoxPro DBCS support allows you to create international applications. For
example, you can create a Japanese application with a U.S. version of Visual
FoxPro if you're running the <B>Japanese version of Windows</B>. The Visual
FoxPro DBCS functions operate properly on the Japanese character set, and the
Japanese collation sequence is supported.

I used W2K as the operating System to develop the App on and I was under the impression that W2K contained language support for Asian Character Sets which would then allow VFP6 to work as though it was running on a localized version of Windows ( e.g. Japanese version of Windows ). Unfortunately I had no luck with DBCS in VFP6 ( The version of VFP6 I'm using is English, which I assume is the U.S. version of Visual FoxPro ). Is it possible to do what I wanted with VFP6 or have I misunderstood the Language Support in W2K? I was able to get the App working in ACCESS 2000 with no language support apart from installing the Arial Unicode MS Font. Chinese, Japanese and Korean were able to be housed in the same tables and the app works well. I would have preferred to be able to do this app in VFP6. Is what I did for the ACCESS 2000 App possible in VFP6? If not, will it be possible in VFP7?

Many Thanks,
Gavin...

>Hi all,
>
>In the past days I've had several people asking about Localization and VFP 7. So, here's the scoop: we will have fully localized (Software and Docs) versions of VFP 7 in German and Spanish.
>
>We will also have localized runtimes of VFP for French, Chinese (both Traditional and Simplified), Czech and Russian in addition to German and Spanish, shipping in the US box to ensure that customers can create local applications with the US version of our product.
>
>Hopefully, this is good news for all of you.
>
>Thanks
>- Ricardo