You cannot use the odbc & mssql extensions to read nvarchar & ntext fields. You will have to use the odbtp extension located at http://odbtp.sourceforge.net. It provides support for UNICODE data. -- bob On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Juan Torres wrote: > Hello, > > I have a connectoin ODBC with a SQL Server database. A table has a field of > type 'nvarchar'. This field contains japanese characters. > How can I read these japanese characteres? When I read (with: "select name > from data") only read '?' character. > > Thaks very much. > Juan Torres. > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php