odbc connection and unicode

[andijvie]

hi there,

 

i'm trying to read data from a ms access database with chinese texts.

when a connection is established, i'm trying to read from the table which contains the chinese texts.

the result are a little dissapointing, only '?????' is received. it looks like its readed like ascii text, not unicode, or utf8.

 

using utf8_encode didn't help.

anybody an idea how to fix this ?

 

(when using c# to retrieve data from the same table, it works fine)

 

thanks !