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For table creation the BDE system will default to the language driver set by the BDE Administrator (independent setting for each driver, i.e. for PARADOX, DBASE and FOXPRO). However, every table will keeps it's own language setting independent of whatever the current default language driver.
Besides carrying the character value to character key mapping the language driver also carries the information of upper-lower case conversions as well as sorting order on single or pairs of characters specific for the regional or language related rules. This is why some of the languages drivers have exactly the same character sets for the same character values.
For any table file this language setting may be changed for the specific files at any time as needed.
Changing the language driver for a table does not change the table data (i.e. does not change the character codes) - it only changes the interpretation of character codes to viewable characters.
In PdxEditor changing the language driver is done via the Table menu.
Available language drivers are also visible from the Help menu.
See also BDE language drivers.
Concerning the currently active table, the language driver associated with that table will always be displayed in the status bar at the bottom of the application window.
The characters as viewed with the currently applied language driver are the characters used when exporting the data to either Excel or to CSV text data.
See also Text export.