>>So, it's very simple
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>>(1) the msforms accepts UTF-16
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>If I get the value from SQL Server, I don't get the string above. I get a 4 bytes per character string. You missed the step of retrieving the value from SQL Server.

Look, I just copied your code to fill the cursor - and it's 2 bytes/char


>>(2) And gives its value back in the 'current' code page - which is a bad conversion
>>(3) swith to the code page of the language you're displaying with sys(3101)
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>!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I don't know which language I am displaying - that's the whole point!

Well, you'll need to know the language - how else can you know the codepage ?


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>>(4) retrieve the value
>>(5) set the original value of sys(3101) back
>>(6) convert the value to utf-16
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>Ok, I'll try.
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>Although two extra steps are missing in your tests:
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>1. Retrieve data from nvarchar(100) field

That is the cursor

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>5. Save data back to nvarchar(100) field

Well, I have the data in a string - you can add an undate or a replace ?


>6. Try with different languages (don't know in advance which) and all different languages need to show correctly on the same form.


I have shown an example in Cyrillic - surely you can try a few others