>I have need to read in Eastern European City names, and display them in a VFP form. I can either scrap the data from a third party web page, or get it in an Excel spreadsheet - in both cases I don't have any control over their output.
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>The mechanics of reading the data in are fine. However, when I browse the resultant data, foreign characters (eg a capital A with 2 dots above it) displays as two high ASCII codes. Greek characters are even worse.
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>Can somebody please give me some guidance on how to preserve the original characters and display them to my users as such? (I assume this may be something to do with Codepages - FWIW my machine is set to Windows and language English).

Hi Kevin,

It sounds like the sources of the info you're retrieving data from, are using Unicode and VFP doesn't support Unicode. You may try STRCONV(..., 6, ...) but I'm not sure if it will work.