My copy of VFP7 arrives end of this week I will test it then

Thank you

>Sorry Dimitris has Jim said this only work in VFP7 I sometimes forget that there are people that didn't upgrade to VFP7.
>Perhaps this is the right time for you to upgrade to VFP7
>
>>I have test the code :
>>*
>>lcstr = STRCONV("È", 1) &&IF YOU CAN TURN EXPLORERS ENCODING TO GREEK WINDOWS, YOU SHOULD SEE THE GREEK CHARACTER THETA
>>lcstr = STRCONV(lcstr, 9) &&I GET THE ERROR : FUNCTION ARGUMENT VALUE, TYPE OR COUNT IS INVALID
>>
>>Dimitrios
>>
>>>see the bellow code:
>>>

>>>lcstr = STRCONV(lcstr, 1) && convert single-byte string to double-byte string
>>>lcstr = STRCONV(lcstr, 9) && convert double-byte string to UTF-8
>>>lcstr is now UTF-8
>>>
>>>

>>>>Thank you both.
>>>>
>>>>I tried to use this function but I have not succeeded.
>>>>
>>>>Here is the exact problem :
>>>>I want to produce an xml document which will be in utf-8 encoding. Utf-8 is a unicode encoding as is utf-16. Utf-8 and utf-16 is a representation of unicode characters using one or more bytes. The first 127 characters of utf-8 are represented by the same bytes as ascii. Thats why you never have problems with utf-8 and pure latin characters. Windows 98 uses for greek characters the windows-1253 CodePage which is the default codepage in my pc.
>>>>
>>>>Then i want to convert the greek characters to utf-8 encoding.
>>>>
>>>>Dimitris
>>>>
>>>>>>Hello,
>>>>>>Is it possible to encode a string from a local windows or other code page (i.e. windows-1253) to utf-8 with out going via the MS xml parser ??
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thank You
>>>>>
>>>>>From the manual: STRCONV() "Converts character expressions between single-byte, double-byte, UNICODE, and locale-specific representations.".
>>>>>
>>>>>What I don't quite understand is whether utf-8 the standard (default) Unicode codepage, or not.