Hi Naeem,

only ADO supports UTF-8. Rick Strahl has a page on double-byte languages in VFP https://www.west-wind.com/presentations/foxunicode/foxunicode.asp. Steven Black also have a page: http://stevenblack.com/intlasia/

The tool we found very handy was wwSQLClient from Rick's WestWind site. It's part of his Internet and Client Tools. You access ADO as you would a regular SQL query.

Finally: for display you will need controls that can show double-byte characters: DBI's Studio Controls for Com: http://www.dbi-tech.com/ProductPage_StudioControlsCOM.aspx They have unicode versions of 19 of the controls.

In the end (after all the research and proofs-of-concept) we decided to go with Lianja for anything required asian/arabic double-byte languages, since Lianja is native UTF-8 and we are headed that way in any case. But if you are doing it in VFP, the above is what you need to know to get started.

Hank



>Hi,
>
>I have a product table in Oracle database which has a column (Prodname_ar) for storing product names in Arabic. My application uses English as Input language but wants to show some information in Arabic language.
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>I set "system locale" to "Arabic" and input language/Keyboard to "English" on my computer. I inserted Arabic text to Oracle database through sql pass through and it saved properly.
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>Now I read data but Sqlresult shows me "????????????" in Arabic column (Prodname_ar).
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>If I access this through ADO then I get Arabic text correctly.
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>How can I get this via sql pass through method form Oracle database ?
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>TIA
>Naeem
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>Note: I also tested it using MS SQL Server and no problem getting Arabic text from nVarchar column via SPT.