Code Page Information Stored in Byte 29 of Table Header

ID: Q111322

2.50a 2.50b 3.00| 2.50a 2.50b | 2.50b

WINDOWS         | MS-DOS      | MACINTOSH

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 3.0
• Microsoft FoxPro for Windows, versions 2.5a and 2.5b
• Microsoft FoxPro for MS-DOS, versions 2.5a and 2.5b
• Microsoft FoxPro for Macintosh, version 2.5b

SUMMARY

Code page information is stored in byte 29 of the header of a database (table) file (.DBF).

NOTE: The first byte in the header of a database is referred to as 0 byte. If the first byte if referred to as 1, then the code page is 30.

MORE INFORMATION

The program CPZERO.PRG is automatically installed in your main FoxPro directory in FoxPro version 2.x. In Visual FoxPro, the CPZERO.PRG program is located in the VFP\TOOLS\CPZERO directory. CPZERO.PRG is provided to reset a table's code page to zero. To see an example of how to modify a table's code page, view the contents of CPZERO.PRG.

Additional reference words: VFoxWin 3.00 FoxMac FoxDos FoxWin 2.50a 2.50b codepage set collate to KBCategory: kbprg KBSubcategory: FxprgIntl

Keywords          : FxprgIntl 
Version           : 2.50a 2.50b 3.00| 2.50a 2.50b |
Platform          : MACINTOSH MS-DOS WINDOWS

Last Reviewed: December 16, 1997