KB177852 - FIX: Visual FoxPro 5.0a under Japanese Operating System Causes DBC Characters Problems

Article ID: 177852

Article Last Modified on 2/11/2005

Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0a

This article was previously published under Q177852

SYMPTOMS

When you use Visual FoxPro version 5.0a under a Japanese Operating System (OS), and you enter Double-Byte Japanese Characters in a text box or the Visual FoxPro Command window, the text is unreadable after the Enter or Return key is pressed.

RESOLUTION

Install Visual Studio Service Pack 2 from:

http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/

and follow the SP2 link.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This has been corrected in Visual FoxPro 6.0.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Install the United States (US) version of Visual FoxPro version 5.0a (there is no Japanese localized version of Visual FoxPro 5.0a) under Japanese Windows 95.
Type in some Japanese Characters in the Visual FoxPro Command window. NOTE: Instead of Japanese characters, unreadable characters appear.

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