>>>Interesting... What are your system parameters and which font did you use for report?
>>>
>>>I've tried in VFP6.
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>>I am using VFP7 with the default font of courier new.
>
>I found a workaround: put chr(7) instead of chr(178), then replace chr(7) with
>chr(178). Just found, it doesn't work :( It shows correctly in a string, but not in a file...

It doesn't matter what font you use when you print report to file because only charcters values will be sent to file. It does matter what you use to view file.