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Preserving international characters during import
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26/11/2002 10:08:37
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00726687
Message ID:
00726998
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18
>>If the table is already marked with an incorrect codepage, you may need cpzero.prg.
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>Hilmar,
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>Thank you for the tip. Turns out that the Clipper tables had no code page associated with them, so I ran CPZERO on all of them and converted them to a code page of 863 (Ms-Dos French Canadian). After re-running the conversion, all the characters looked just fine.

Great! I had my doubts, whether you could associate a codepage to a Clipper table at all. Therefore I suggested copying to a FoxPro DOS table. But if you can set the codepage directly, that is much easier.

Hilmar.
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