Chet,

as usual there are many ways to achieve this. You could start using the Rich Text Control box that VB uses. There is an example present in VFP6 that you can use.
There are many ways to deal with Japanese characters:
- unicode
- rtf
- dbcs
- normal text

We use normal text to enter Japanese but you need to use (for instance) TwinBridge. This application converts all DBCS characters (or character pairs)to the proper Japanese characters. To store data you can use normal text fields (memo's). As expected there are problems:
- users that do not have TwinBridge will see total garbage on all screens and reports
- how do you print the data

There is also a possibility to store the data in RTF but this has me puzzled. What you need to remember: not all OS's support DBCS (or Unicode) while Twinbridge will work on all of them. This means you can support these characters on these platforms.

Confused...so am I...

Regards,

Ron Brahma

>...I really think so! (Sorry, I couldn't resist)
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>We have a client who wants to use an existing VFP app, but wants to enter and store all data as Japanese characters. I'm clear on how to set up Windows to enter Japanese characters in Foxpro tables with the correct character set and font.
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>However, all of the data entry controls in the app's forms have Arial as the font for all data entry controls, which I know doesn't contain Japanese characters.
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>I need to know if there's any quick way to get this app to store and echo back Japanese characters in the forms and tables without having to change the font on all of the data entry controls.
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>One idea that I had was to rename a font file that contains Japanese characters to ARIAL.TTF and try to fool Windows into thinking it was the Arial font that my forms are already using. Has anyone tried this?
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>Any and all suggestions that wouldn't involve changing (and therefore creating different versions of) my application would be appreciated.
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>Thanks,
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>Ben Holton
>Conarc, Inc.