It depends on what font you use. In the Windows fonts like Arial, Tahoma the 'ÿ' character has code 255.

>Working with a gage interface I discovered this little bit of information that has me puzzled.
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>ASCII code 152 is the charachter ÿ.
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>But if I ask foxpro what the code is ? asc('ÿ') it returns 255.
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>255 is a blank.