Dragan,

thanks for the info. I will try fiddling around with codepage of both the table and VFP.

Ron

>>Dragan,
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>>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.