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BIG problem... Characters encoding

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Topic: BIG problem... Characters encoding

Posted By: zMaestro
Subject: BIG problem... Characters encoding
Date Posted: 23 January 2004 at 1:41am

Hi, I'm facing a very big problem, please Help.

I'm using a form to update a database.
I enter arabic characters in the forms.
I faced no problem at all in reading or updating the database through web,
although when i open the access database i can't read the entires because it appears in another character set, something like this: ��
this "�� " is arabic that can be read from web normally.

NOW... I installed new WindowsXP, and new Access, now when I update from web, the database can't be read, it is read exactly like: ????????????????????, although it can be read directly from the database.

I think i want to fill the database by ANSI and not Unicode Encoding.

can anyone help plz?.

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Posted By: zMaestro
Date Posted: 23 January 2004 at 3:12am

a for me

after a few hours of investigating... and a little of GOOD LUCK... I fixed it...

Control Panel | Regional and Language Options | Advanced | make the non-unicode programs use English (United States) instead of Arabic (Egypt)...