Cannot read chinese characters

I have a file which has chinese characters. Reading it via READ DATASET is giving some junk characters. I tried Legacy mode. But to no avail.
Any clues?

HI Aishi,
Please could you explain me how did you solve this issue...as I am also facing similar issue !!
I am using 4.7 version ........ and Using BDC I need to upload some data in Chinese language , I have the exact
Chinese language in notepad / Excel but when I upload it ..... its getting changed to some other unreadable script.
Please advice
Karthik.R

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