Multiple-Language Implications in Visual FoxPro

 Last reviewed: November 17, 1995
Article ID: Q136943
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 3.0

SUMMARY

This article describes some points to remember in multiple-language development.

MORE INFORMATION

Visual FoxPro does not currently support Unicode. Windows NT supports Unicode, but Windows 95 does not.

Windows 95 has the concept of mixing code pages within a document, and associating code pages with sections or with fonts. FoxPro does not. The code page is a system-wide setting, and all fonts and sections within FoxPro are interpreted according to the FoxPro code page setting (read in from the system on startup). It is highly inadvisable to use extended characters in table names that will be ported across platforms or code pages, because currently most operating systems do not translate filenames on copy, so internal references to that filename that are translated will no longer match.

Additional reference words: 3.00 VFoxWin localize localise dbcs
international collate foreign multilanguage multi-language
KBCategory: kbprg
KBSubcategory: FxprgIntl

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Last reviewed: November 17, 1995
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