Charles,

It may be true that VFP controls do not support unicode. Nevertheless, I found the answer to my question in an article on Steven Black's site. Thanks for the lead. Now I can put Chinese characters into labels, control captions, etc. It was a matter of making the right regional settings in the Windows Control Panel.

---Thomas

>>I need to know how to provide a Chinese language interface for a VFP application. I have installed Chinese language support on my Windows XP Professional workstation, and I can enter Chinese characters into a MS Word document, for example. But I don't see how to put Chinese into a label or control caption on a VFP form. I set the font to one that has Chinese characters, but when I try to enter the characters into the property page via the IME or copy-and-paste, all I get are ?-marks.
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>>Could someone please point me in the right direction. (I'm using VFP 5, but can update to 8 if that would help.)
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>The native VFP controls do not support unicode. So you can't use the native VFP controls for languages that require more than the normal ascii range. I don't know if that's changed in VFP 9, I didn't see it in the release notes so I would gess not. You can either switch to an Active-X control that does support it or you can look into INTLToolkit at http://www.stevenblack.com/. I don't know if it supports Chinese or not.