unicode and dbf files

[John Machin]

On Oct 23, 7:28 am, Ethan Furman <et... at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> Greetings, all!
>
> I would like to add unicode support to my dbf project.  The dbf header
> has a one-byte field to hold the encoding of the file.  For example,
> \x03 is code-page 437 MS-DOS.
>
> My google-fu is apparently not up to the task of locating a complete
> resource that has a list of the 256 possible values and their
> corresponding code pages.

What makes you imagine that all 256 possible values are mapped to code
pages?

> So far I have found this, plus variations:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/129631
>
> Does anyone know of anything more complete?

That is for VFP3. Try the VFP9 equivalent.

dBase 5,5,6,7 use others which are not defined in publicly available
dBase docs AFAICT. Look for "language driver ID" and "LDID". Secondary
source: ESRI support site.