Subject Re: [firebird-support] Saving / Retreving Chinese chrs from database
Author Michael Ludwig
Andy Gable schrieb am 26.07.2012 um 03:21 (+0100):

> "KITCHENDESCRIPTION_ENG" VARCHAR(40),
>
> "KITCHENDESCRIPTION_OTHER" VARCHAR(100) CHARACTER SET UTF8,

> (programming language VB6 and interface is ODBC)

> I can display when adding a new product the Chinese chars but when I
> recall it from the database I get ????

My guess: Some buffer or whatnot on the way from the character
data column to ???? is not ready to accept wide characters, so
the replacement character (frequently just the question mark)
is substituted for the real ones. Check your VB6 code.
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Michael Ludwig