Question : How do i display Chinese Simplified properly in VFP9 ?

hi,

  previously, i use vfp9 to write a program. the system show no problem to display  Chinese Tradisional character (BIG5). but when i use Chinese Simplified character (GB), SOME chinese character will show questionmark (?), so i try the Chinese Simplified on other software like MS Word, IE or Notepad; nothing wrong, so i suspect maybe the Chinese Simplified character is not compatible with VFP. pls advise.

  by the way, i am using Chinese (PRC) and Chinese (taiwan)  IME from Control Panel -> Regional and Language options, my OS is Windows XP SP3

Answer : How do i display Chinese Simplified properly in VFP9 ?

VFP does not support Unicode natively. If you need to display Unicode characters then you need some conversion and appropriate font to display the results. But this you probably know.

Questionmarks are caused either by impossible conversion or by font which does not support such characters. Both font and conversion routine is provided by operating system and VFP has no influence on it. If the character is displayed correctly in Unicode enabled software then the most probably reason is conversion. You should test you app on newer OS (Vista, W7) with chinese support installed.

Sorry I cannot help more.

Rick Strahl published interesting paper about Unicode in VFP on his web:
http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/foxunicode/foxunicode.asp

This discussion could give you more info (and see links at the end):
http://www.foxite.com/archives/how-to-implement-unicode-in-vfp-0000208914.htm

This link worked for me from Google cache:
http://209.85.135.132/search?q=cache:c28XJBaXzswJ:www.programmersheaven.com/2/using-unicode-in-visual-foxpro+chinese+in+foxpro&cd=9&hl=cs&ct=clnk&gl=cz