I was afraid yu would give me that answer. As I wrote earlier, please reply to Aleksey, I am also curious to know if this is will be fixed, at least with a solution like SET CODEPAGECHECK OFF or something like that.

>My new programs works with codepage 1250 (Czech Windows Page), but I share some data with old programs, that my customers use sucessfuly for several years and nobody want to change them now. That is why I need to select data from DBF files with different code pages in one program (1250,852).
>I have tried the command SET ENGINEBEHAVIOR 80 at first, but the Rushmore optmization level was NONE in any case after recompilation by VFP9.