-----Original Message----- From: Alekov, Trifon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 2:18 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Problem using Unicode Dear Sirs, I have the following problem. My VC6++ project reads the data from the Access and Excel db connected trough the ODBC. To read the data I use MFC classes CRecordset and CDBVariant. But when I have a Cyrillic,Greek,Arabic etc text in my db the result after reading is ?????? My project is set for Unicode(I have _UNICODE and wWinMainCRTStartup in my settings). I This is a part of my code: CString str; CRecordset* m_pSet; . . . CDBVariant var; m_pSet->GetFieldValue(ib,var); switch (var.m_dwType) { case DBVT_STRING: str = *var.m_pstring; // narrow characters break; case DBVT_SHORT: str.Format(_T("%d"),(int)var.m_iVal); break; case DBVT_LONG: str.Format(_T("%d"),var.m_lVal); break; case DBVT_SINGLE: str.Format(_T("%10.2f"),(double)var.m_fltVal); break; case DBVT_DOUBLE: str.Format(_T("%d"),(int)var.m_dblVal); break; case DBVT_DATE: str.Format(_T("%02d.%02d.%04d"),var.m_pdate->day,var.m_pdate->month,var. m_pd ate->year); break; case DBVT_BOOL: str = (var.m_boolVal == 0)?_T("FALSE") : _T("TRUE"); break; case DBVT_NULL: str = _T(""); break; default: str.Format(_T("Unk type%d\n"),var.m_dwType); } Have you any idea what is wrong with my program and how can I read Unicode data from the db via ODBC? Kind regards, Trifon Alekov

