... (40 Year old) DBF, start with 7-Bit C/PM under Dbase ]} over. Dbase III+. Cli*pper, Xbase++, HMG and now Fivewin these DBF (still) have OEM "Umlaute" not ANSI "Umlaute" but there is no OEMtoUTF8() Function in FiveWin, or :idea: i have try these OEM // OEM cText := STRTRAN( ...