Ms access UTF8

Question

  str=convert(str);                                                 textarea.append(str+"\n");i am using a "UTF8" connection to MS access the converted unicode string displays fine on the text area but when inserted using prepared statement it inserts only "???????". help

Answer 1

However, when I read the data using the same method
in the first example, I get back question marks. I
guess there's something different about the way the
data was encoded? I read that Access stores all
character data as Unicode, but I'm not sure if that
implies a particular encoding (such as UTF8) or not.
Is there any way to figure out how the
manually-entered data is encoded?
Please see the article here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP052604161033.aspx
It suggests that Access stores data in UTF-16 or UTF-8 depending on whether a "Unicode Comression" feature is selected. So, I'd say you should try retrieving data from the other db as UTF-16.
Regards,
John O'Conner