Hi!

STFW. You can find a lot of information in the WEB about Windows, charsets, UNICODE characters (used by WinWord to correctly show something even it was Hebrew or China text, and WinWord also correctly gets charset from HTML page) etc.

Of course, Windows should have regional support installed for that character set.

As about your VFP example, there are 4 conceptually different Cyryllic character sets: ISO, Windows, KOI-8, DOS. Which one you used in VFP? Which one was in the WEB browser when you copied its content? You can see character set of WEB page, for exmaple, in IE 6.0 it is "View - Encoding" menu.

>Hi, folks!
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>Tamar wrote:
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>but in VFP 8, controls have a FontCharSet property that lets you change the character for individual controls.
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>So far, so good - but what does it help?
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>Which preconditions I need to put in for example russian text? Do I need russian fonts? Do I need a russian Windows system? Do I need a russian keyboard layout?
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>BTW: I tried the following: I went to a russian website, copied some russian text and pasted it into Winword - and I got russian text! I pasted it into a VFP8 editbox with FontCharSet = 204 (cyrillic) - and I got only question marks (ASC() gives back 63)!
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>Where is the way to solve this - or where can I get additional informations?