Maybe your control expect Unicode string? In this case you can use STRCONV() to convert your string to Unicode().

>Hi,
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>I have a fiscal printer, and I am trying to send to it some string. OK, there is ActiveX that interfeces the printer.
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>so in VFP6 I have this string:
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>a="àáâãä......" &&cyrillic Macedonian alphabet
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>and do
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>mycontrol.PrintMethot(a)
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>and some charakters are printed some not, some replacet with different chars some with blanks.
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>I try this example in VB6 and it works great. ?????
>Is VFP have problems with some encodings ???