Hi mal,

I'm worrying about length of strings and fieldwidths that have to be changed, because of the double byte stuff. I'm afraid to encounter all kinds of problems/bugs that have to do with two bytes representing 1 character.

Walter,

>Hi Walter:
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>I use Twinbridge with the English version of XP (also used it with Window 3, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000) never had a problem using it with FoxPro DOS, FoxPro Windows, and all versions of VFP. Not sure what kind of problems you are expecting regarding double character sets. I never had a problem ... using VFP. The only problem, if you can call it that, is how the characters display. They seem smaller than what the points size is and you have to fiddle a little to make it look good.
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>They have a trial version ... try it out.
>http://www.twinbridge.com
>
>Mal
>
>>Hi mal,
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>>>Not sure what you mean by "whats involved" but, I use Twinbridge (Japanese) in VFP 6/7/8 and it works fine.
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>>>The forms, tables, and reports all in Japanese ... and the tables will sort in Japanese too (not English a,b,c... order). I don't think it would be any different in Chinese.
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>>Well, for a company I work for, we face the problem translating our product into asian languages. How are you going to deal double character sets ? Lots of stuff in our traditional systems is counting to single byte character and we are really affraid what comes up when we doublebyte.
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>>Walter,