>Hi All:
> I often get an error message that said that 'please select a code page'. I then would select Window option. Is there a way to fix this or why this would be happening in the first place?
>Thanks
The reason this happens is that your table is not marked with a codepage. It probably is a table from an older version of FoxPro, which didn't mark codepages.
The ability to mark a table with a codepage was introduced for cross-platform compatibility (DOS, Windows, Mac, and Unix too, I believe). Letters with diacriticals (á, ñ, ö, and others) have different numeric representations in different operating systems.
If you open the table and answer that the codepage is 437 or 850 (for DOS), you will be asked no more in the future.
If you don't mark the codepage (SET CPDIALOG OFF), characters will not get translated correctly. This is no problem for English-language characters, but it may be for Spanish, German, etc. texts.
HTH, Hilmar.
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