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Cyrillic conversion for FoxPro

I use applications written in Visual FoxPro 6.0, which run in WinXP in Oracle Virtual Box. The virtual machine has shared clipboard with the host machine, which runs Windows 10 Pro. In FoxPro, code page is set to 1251. How can I convert a Cyrillic text, say, from Microsoft Word in the host machine (Office 365), which is presumably in Unicode, into a readable text in memo fields of the FoxPro applicaitons? Thanks.
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Side note:  This means that SMB V1 is probably in use on your network, as XP never supported later versions of SMB.

If that is the case then the application should be migrated to Vista/32 or Windows 7/32 ASAP.  This will permit disabling SMB V1.  There are just too many holes in SMB V1 for it to be used in a production environment.  "What's mine is yours, what's yours is mine, I caught something, now we're all infected."
Of course, SMB1 is less secure than newer versions but we are talking about the internal subnet inside the company structure most likely so you have to pass the firewall first.

And remember the shared files access is getting much slower in more secured environments and certain settings can even cause data damages...

All this is valid for DBF files accessed via the network. If the VFP application uses data on local drives then there is no impact of any SMB.