Kurt,

It's a typical codepage problem which gave me a major headache a couple of years ago.
You can use the CPZERO.PRG which is in you're VFP8 directory as :
DO CPZERO WITH "mydbf.dbf",850

or you can translate the fields individually with

CPCONVERT(850,1252,Veldnaam)

If you convert the file the problem is that if you access them from DOS they show other characters of course.

Guillaume