Files In Cantonese

[AidenMc]

All,
I have been asked to see if VFP supports/can import files that will be in Cantonese. I am afraid thats all the information I have been given ie no file format or layout, just whether or not we would be able to use VFP/dbase to import the files into our systems. Has anyone done this before or does anyone know if it is possible.

Thanks

Aiden

 

[Olaf Doschke]

VFP supports codepages in it's GUI, which includes chinese codepages 936 (Chinese Simplified) and codepage 950 (Traditional Chinese). VFP actuelly is used in china, tools like unfoxall come from chinese programmers (see

http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~UnfoxAll)

It's very cumbersome though, to work with codepages instead of universally usable unicode strings/texts. Especially foxpro has no controls supporting unicode, so if the files are unicode, you need to convert to one of the codepages via STRCONV().

Some more links on the topic:

http://stevenblack.com/intlhowto.html

http://stevenblack.com/INTLUsingAsianCharacters.html

Bye, Olaf.

 

[AidenMc]

Olaf,
Thanks for that , it's been a great help

Cheers

Aiden