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DBF Language Driver IDs	Ross Pickard	Aug 03, 2006
Re: DBF Language Driver IDs	Isaac Flemming	Dec 04, 2006
Re: DBF Language Driver IDs	Isaac Flemming	Dec 04, 2006
Re: DBF Language Driver IDs	Ross Pickard	Dec 05, 2006

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Subject	DBF Language Driver IDs
Author	Ross Pickard
Date	Aug 03, 2006
Message	Hi everyone, I'm trying to update my ShapeFile Read/Write DLL and have reached a problem in identifying decimal delimiters (some European countries use , as the delimiter) and storing ascii characters above dec 127. This is controlled by the Language ID number at byte offset 29 in the DBF file. Can anyone provide a list of the supported ID numbers and languages? Cheers Ross

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Subject	Re: DBF Language Driver IDs
Author	Isaac Flemming
Date	Dec 04, 2006
Message	Hello Ross, I am having a bit of the same trouble, but I did find a little bit of info on what some of the Numbers Mean for FoxPro, I am not sure if this is similar to the values ESRI uses to determine languages or not. The value in my dbf files at byte 29 is 0x57h, and I do not see that one on the list so I am assuming that the list is not up to date. But here is the link anyway. Also, I see it has been a while since you posted this and I was wondering if you learned anything else. If so could you please let me know, because at this point I am still looking. Thanks Isaac -- LINK http://www.clicketyclick.dk/databases/xbase/format/dbf.html#DBF_NOTE_5_TARGET

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Subject	Re: DBF Language Driver IDs
Author	Isaac Flemming
Date	Dec 04, 2006
Message	Another reply, I am not sure if you found this info already, but if not it may be helpful. http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=knowledgebase.techarticles.articleShow&d=26015

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Subject	Re: DBF Language Driver IDs
Author	Ross Pickard
Date	Dec 05, 2006
Message	Hi Isaac, Thanks for the links - Yes I had seen them. The ESRI white papers show that there is indeed limited code page support in the ShapeFile format... As you would expect since only one byte is available in the DBF file for encoding. So far I've worked out the following values: OEM = 0 Codepage_437_US_MSDOS = &H1 Codepage_850_International_MSDOS = &H2 Codepage_1252_Windows_ANSI = &H3 ANSI = &H57 Codepage_737_Greek_MSDOS = &H6A Codepage_852_EasernEuropean_MSDOS = &H64 Codepage_857_Turkish_MSDOS = &H6B Codepage_861_Icelandic_MSDOS = &H67 Codepage_865_Nordic_MSDOS = &H66 Codepage_866_Russian_MSDOS = &H65 Codepage_950_Chinese_Windows = &H78 Codepage_936_Chinese_Windows = &H7A Codepage_932_Japanese_Windows = &H7B Codepage_1255_Hebrew_Windows = &H7D Codepage_1256_Arabic_Windows = &H7E Codepage_1250_Eastern_European_Windows = &HC8 Codepage_1251_Russian_Windows = &HC9 Codepage_1254_Turkish_Windows = &HCA Codepage_1253_Greek_Windows = &HCB If anyone knows anything more ...please share Cheers Ross