>>>>Hi all,
>>>>I'm trying to use the MSForms Textbox to display some Chinese characters. I can enter the data in Chinese (using copy & Paste) but I can't save the data to a table and then display it. I'm just getting ????? instead of the original characters.
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>>>>Does anyone know the way around this?
>>>>Many thanks.
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>>>Are you using CAST()? Are your type designations beginning with "N"?
>>Terry,
>>Sorry you've lost me totally - I was just taking the TextBox.Text and replacing that into the tables memo field. I guessed that there was something more complicated that I should be doing but.....
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>>Many thanks for any help you can give me.
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>I am only aware of approaches that implement UNICODE and TSQL. The CAST() TSQL command ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/tsqlref/ts_ca-co_2f3o.asp ) and unicode SQL table fields (begin with an N).
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>We have an expert on this board - BILL SANDERS - but he must be fishing or making a fondeau!

Does that mean that although I can enter Chinese characters unless the machine is setup to have Chinese as the language for Non-Unicode programs (which then messes up all European accented characters) I can't actually save the information to a VF table?