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Gordon

French character lost during convertion

I have a dbase III+ file. There are French characters in it. When I
convert the dbase file to Excel 2003, the French characters are changed
to wrong characters.

For example "Th=E9r=E8se" became "ThTrFse".

How can I avoid this?

TIA

Gordon.

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