Be sure and test your app under the different language versions of Windows if you expect users will be running them. The same code sometimes works differently under Japanese Windows than the English version, for example. I found that some of my menu pads weren't visible under Japanese Windows. Drove me nuts until I realized some characters were being seen as control codes and backspacing over the text, etc. I padded the menu text with one space and everything was fine. Weird.

Good news in VFP 8: If you need to pass data back and forth from COM servers in different Windows versions, VFP 8 now allows for passing SafeArrays of VT_UI1s BY_REF. This is really useful in passing data streams without having a server convert it to Unicode and invalidate the string.

Gary

>Hi, Jamie!
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>You should look at Steven Black's INTL toolkit.
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>Oh, I did so - but it seems to complex for the job!
>I don't need any translation stuff, any language switching of running forms etc.
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>I only need to deal with different fonts / charsets (hopefully I don't have to deal with unicode <s>)!
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>May be there are some other hints!?