FIX: Import Wizard Fails With Excel 97 With Chinese Char (221674)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 6.0

This article was previously published under Q221674

SYMPTOMS

Certain Chinese characters saved in the Excel 97 worksheet may cause the following error when imported into a Visual FoxPro 6.0 table using either the Import Wizard or the Import command:

Fatal Error: Exception Code:C0000005

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

This bug was corrected in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3. For more information about Visual Studio service packs, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

194295 HOWTO: Tell That Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs Are Installed

MORE INFORMATION

Only certain Chinese characters saved in the Excel worksheet will cause this problem.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Create a Excel worksheet and randomly type in a large number of Chinese characters.
Launch Visual FoxPro 6.0, and type in the following command in Command window:
```
IMPORT FROM <worksheet name> TYPE XL8
					
```
If the offensive characters are in the Excel worksheet, Visual FoxPro 6.0 will generate a C0000005 Fatal Error and terminate.

Modification Type:	Major	Last Reviewed:	10/15/2002
Keywords:	kbBug kbVS600sp3fix kbwizard kbXBase KB221674