DOCUMENT:Q199778  22-FEB-2000  [foxpro]
TITLE   :DOC: Help File Has Incomplete List of Collate Sequences
PRODUCT :Microsoft FoxPro
PROD/VER:WINDOWS:6.0
OPER/SYS:
KEYWORDS:kbDatabase kbDocs kbvfp600bug KbDBFDBC

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The information in this article applies to:

 - Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 6.0 
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SUMMARY
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The Online Help for Visual FoxPro 6.0 does not contain a complete list of the
collate sequences available in the product.

MORE INFORMATION
================

Following is a list of collate sequences and code pages supported by Visual
FoxPro 6.0. The first list is the code pages and collate sequences introduced in
FoxPro 2.5b for Windows. This list does not appear in the Visual FoxPro 6.0 Help
file.

+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Collation Sequence | Friendly Name    | Code Pages                                        | 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| CZECH              | Czech            | 852, 895, 1250                                    | 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| DUTCH              | Dutch            | 437, 850, 1252                                    | 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| GREEK              | Greek            | 737, 1253                                         | 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| GENERAL            | General          | 437, 620, 850,852, 861, 865,895, 1250, 1252,10000 | 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| HUNGARY            | Hungarian        | 852, 1250                                         | 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| ICELAND            | Icelandic        | 437, 850, 861,1252                                | 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| MACHINE            | Machine          | All                                               | 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NORDAN             | Norwegian/Danish | 437, 850, 865,1252                                | 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| POLISH             | Polish           | 620, 852, 1250                                    | 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| RUSSIAN            | Russian          | 866, 1251                                         | 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| SLOVAK             | Slovak           | 852, 895, 1250                                    | 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| SPANISH            | Spanish          | 437, 850, 1252                                    | 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| SWEFIN             | Swedish/Finnish  | 437, 850, 1252                                    | 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| UNIQWT             | Unique Weight    | 437, 850, 1252,10000                              | 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Visual FoxPro 6.0 added the following new code pages:

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Pages                                                               | Code Page number | 
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Thai                                                                     | 874              | 
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Japanese                                                                 | 932              | 
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Chinese (People's Republic of China,
          Hong Kong SAR, Singapore) | 936              | 
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Korean                                                                   | 949              | 
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Chinese (Taiwan)                                                         | 950              | 
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Hebrew                                                                   | 1255             | 
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Arabic                                                                   | 1256             | 
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Visual FoxPro 6.0 added the following new collation sequences:

+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Collate Sequence Name                               | Code Page | 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Thai                                                | 874       | 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Japanese                                            | 932       | 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Korean                                              | 949       | 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Stroke (Simplified
        and Traditional Chinese) | 936, 950  | 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| PinYin (Simplified Chinese)                         | 936       | 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Hebrew                                              | 1255      | 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Arabic                                              | 1256      | 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+

REFERENCES
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For additional information, please see the following articles in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base:

Q108303 INFO: Contents of README.TXT in 2.5b FOXPROW Directory

Q143304 Content of the README.HLP That Ships with Visual FoxPro 3.0b

Visual FoxPro Documentation: Programmer's Guide;
Chapter 18: Developing International Applications

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Version           : WINDOWS:6.0
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