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>I'm not sure that it what you're looking for, but STRCONV(,12) finction in VFP7 and later can convert data to Unicode.
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>Not if it's FoxPro strings, unless he first converts the FoxPro strings to UTF-8 <s>.
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>He probably needs STRCONV(..,5) rather than ,12 IOW.
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Thanks for catching it. :)