Hello, thanks for your answers. I downloaded both precompiled binaries and shell for windows from www.sqlite.org.
The script looks like this: CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS imiona ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, data TEXT, imie1 TEXT, imie2 TEXT, imie3 TEXT); INSERT INTO imiona (data,imie1,imie2,imie3) VALUES ('01/01/2012','Masława','Mieczysława','Mieszka'), ('16/01/2012','Marcelego','Walerii','Włodzimierza'), ('17/09/2012','Franciszka','Lamberty','Narcyza'); As you can see, it contains accents. The script was written in Notepad++ that controls which charset coding is used but I also double checked it in Notepad and it indicated UTF-8; it can also be confirmed by reading the script text file in Hex editor that shows BOM at the beginning: [*ef bb bf* 43 52 45 41 54 45 20 54 41 42 4c 45 20] [CREATE TABLE] The sequence at start 0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF confirms the file has been created using UTF-8. I tested copy / paste between two text editors in windows 7 and everything works ok; texts with accents are copy / pasted without losing accents. I have noticed though that when I used command line I got this error: D:\Wydarzenia\Events>sqlite3 imieniny.db < test.sql Error: near line 1: near "´╗┐CREATE": syntax error I then used the conding UTF-8 without BOM and the command was accepted but unfortunately I get the strange result: sqlite> select * from imiona; 1 01/01/2012 Mas┼éawa Mieczys┼éawa Mieszka 2 16/01/2012 Marcelego Walerii W┼éodzimie 3 17/09/2012 Franciszka Lamberty Narcyza 4 01/01/2012 Mas┼éawa Mieczys┼éawa Mieszka 5 16/01/2012 Marcelego Walerii W┼éodzimie 6 17/09/2012 Franciszka Lamberty Narcyza Now, I don't know how to test if the text is OK because SQLite2009Pro displays everything converted to ANSI even ithough I set it to UTF-8 :/ Perhaps this program is not very good then. What would you recommend, instead? once again thanks for your effort towards this. I am really really surprised this behaviour. -- View this message in context: http://sqlite.1065341.n5.nabble.com/SQLite-converts-all-unicode-characters-into-ANSI-tp65589p65602.html Sent from the SQLite mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users