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Code Pages in Visual FoxPro

Data stored in Visual FoxPro is often tagged with a code page, which is a table of characters and corresponding numbers in memory that Windows uses to display data properly. For example, if you enter the letter C in a table (.dbf) file, the letter is stored on your hard disk as the number 67. When you open the file, Visual FoxPro determines its code page, inspects the code page to find the character corresponding to the number 67, and then displays the character (C) on your monitor.

Code pages correspond roughly to different alphabets. For example, Windows supplies code pages for English, German, Scandinavian languages, and so on. By using different code pages, applications can properly display characters from these different alphabets.

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