>Dragan,
>
>I would like to try an other option. At this moment I create an instance of Access for the export. I want to try to open the database with Ado and copy it data directly into the VFP table. This means I'm not exporting/importing data anymore....
>If this does not work I will look into your suggestion.

The conversion may still happen while you copy. Look at the data beforehand and make sure you see all three vocals which don't exist in 1252 (long i, û and ö - should be í, õ and û if you're watching this page as ISO-8859-2). You may still need to set the locale on your box, and have a

codepage=1250

in your config.fpw, so that the new table which gets created has that codepage.