Q177791: INFO: DBCS Enabled/Localized FoxPro Products in Far East Region
Article: Q177791
Product(s): Microsoft FoxPro
Version(s): WINDOWS:2.5,2.5a,2.5b,2.6,2.6a,3.0,3.0b,5.0,5.0a,6.0
Operating System(s):
Keyword(s): kbvfp300 kbvfp300b kbvfp500 kbvfp500a kbvfp600 kbvfp260
Last Modified: 22-OCT-2000
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The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft FoxPro for Windows, versions 2.5, 2.5a, 2.5b, 2.6, 2.6a
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 3.0, 3.0b, 5.0, 5.0a, 6.0
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SUMMARY
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This article lists Double-Byte Character Set (DBCS) Enabled/Localized FoxPro
versions for the Far East Region.
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DBCS-enabled means the version of FoxPro is capable of handling double-byte
characters. Localized means the version of FoxPro is a DBCS version and it
displays localized languages on menus, controls, error messages, and Help
files.
The Double-Byte Character Set (DBCS) is a character encoding mechanism that
accommodates ideographic characters used in Far Eastern languages.
Characters in DBCS can be addressed using a 16-bit notation using two bytes, or
double-byte, unlike Single-Byte Character Sets (SBCS), which can only represent
at most 256 characters in one byte. With 16-bit notation, you can represent
65,536 (2^16) characters.
DBCS code pages contain both single and double-byte characters. The DBCS
single-byte characters conform to the 8-bit national standards for each country
and correspond closely to the American Standard Code for Information Interchange
(ASCII) character set.
In a double-byte character set, certain ranges of code-points are designated as
leading bytes. A leading byte, together with the following byte, represents a
single character. This second byte is called the trailing byte or trail-byte.
Each DBCS has a different set of lead-byte ranges and trail-byte ranges. Unlike
leading bytes, trail-bytes in some DBCS' can overlap with the 7-bit ASCII
character set.
For example, the Shift Japan Industry Standard (JIS) character set has a
trail-byte range of 0x40H-0xFEH. That means a byte holding the value of 0x7DH
can represent the second half of a Kanji character, not necessarily a close
brace character(}).
Korean Japanese Simplify Traditional
Chinese Chinese
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Foxpro 2.5
Foxpro 2.5a
Foxpro 2.5b D D D D
Foxpro 2.6
Foxpro 2.6a
Visual FoxPro 3.0
Visual FoxPro 3.0a D D D D
Visual FoxPro 3.0b DL DL DL DL
Visual FoxPro 5.0 D D D D
Visual FoxPro 5.0a DL D DL DL
Visual FoxPro 6.0 DL DL
D: "DBCS Enabled"
L: "Localized"
Additional query words:
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Keywords : kbvfp300 kbvfp300b kbvfp500 kbvfp500a kbvfp600 kbvfp260
Technology : kbVFPsearch kbAudDeveloper kbFoxproSearch kbFoxPro260 kbFoxPro250 kbFoxPro250a kbFoxPro250b kbFoxPro260a kbVFP300 kbVFP300b kbVFP500 kbVFP600 kbVFP500a
Version : WINDOWS:2.5,2.5a,2.5b,2.6,2.6a,3.0,3.0b,5.0,5.0a,6.0
Issue type : kbinfo
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