Thanks,
It seems that i have to upgrade to vfp7 which will happen end of this week

Dimitris

>STRCONV() nConversionSetting values of 9 and greater are new to VFP7. I get the error you describe below in VFP6 SP5, but not in VFP7.
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>>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