>Sergey,
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>I believe that you need to set _screen.Fontname in VFP to the font with extended ASCII, like:
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>_screen.fontname ="ER Bukinist 1251"
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>Unfortunately it is not "my" case: I cannot get the proper return from "$" command unconditionally, which is critical to the project I am working on.
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>Thanks anyway. Will be gratefull if you have desire and time to dig in the problem deeper.
>

Hi Yuri,

I would like to help you but I've no problem that you describe on both my computers. and I don't know how to repro it.