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frank.meulblok
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[quote user="Elsworth Burmeister"] the codepage is iso8859-1 [/quote] In that case anything you do will only "work" by accident because the ISO8859-1 codepage does not contain any Chinese characters , Any end result that looks correct will be because of 2 improper/missing codepage conversions cancelling eachother out. (One on write to the database, one on read from the database). This can (and probably will) also affect any indexes on the character fields in question, interfering with sort order and leading to weird and unwanted side effects. Especially because AFAIK most codepages that do support Chinese are double-byte, and ISO8859-1 is single-byte. (The UTF* Unicode encodings being the exception). You said you're restricted in changing DB codepage, but you realyl should get that restriction lifted/reconsidered.
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