>>>You might look at this http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/foxunicode/foxunicode.asp
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>>I actually read this article couple of times, but I still can not achieve the desired result.
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>>I have data correctly saved in the nvarchar(100) fields. In SSMS I can do
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>>update dbo.Prefs_sl set language00 = N'ʕʒϿ'

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>>and all is well.
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>>Now, in VFP I retrieve the data using
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>>select cast(language00 as varbinary(max)) as language00

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>>So far so good. I created a class with MS Forms2 ActiveX control and I can directly assign that prefs_sl.language00 to the control. See attached screen.
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>>However, I can not figure out how to save it back. I've tried various code from the article and so far nothing worked.
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>>May be someone can try the same experiment as I did and tell me what I'm missing?
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>>Here is what I tried in the Change event of the control:
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>>LOCAL lcText
>>lcText = STRCONV(this.Text,10) 
>>=MESSAGEBOX(m.lcText)
>>lcText = CREATEBINARY(m.lcText)
>>=MESSAGEBOX(m.lcText)
>>_cliptext = m.lcText
>>replace (this.parent.LanguageField) WITH m.lcText

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>>I've tried strconv(this.text,11) also.
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>>Thanks in advance.
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>Why would you convert it back ?
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>If you assign it the data from the table, and it displays well, then the format is ok - I'd say

This is what I get if I directly assign the Text to the field and then attempt to save as convert(nvarchar(100), ?myField)

(See attached). The third textbox is what I actually pasted.