Read SAP table content through VBA why Chinese characters display as '#'

Hi ,
I meet a problem . I want to get sap table content through RFC in excel VBA. now i have solve it . It can got table content . when i change a new system , it can get table content ,but chinese characters display as '#' ( it works well in sap 4.6c Chinese characters can display , when upgrate to ecc 6.0 it can't works well )
some VBA code as below :
Set ofun = CreateObject("SAP.FUNCTIONS") ' create a FUNCTION object
   ' Connect has create and conneted to SAP system
Set ofun.Connection = Connect                     ' "connect"has create connetion sucess
Set func = ofun.Add("RFC_READ_TABLE")    ' set RFC object to call function
    func.Exports("QUERY_TABLE") = "T179T"   ' set table name for get table content
    func.Tables("OPTIONS").DATA = "SPRAS   =   'ZH'"    ' set condition of language of 'ZH'
If func.Call = True Then
        Set oline = func.Tables.Item("DATA")       ' set table content which get from table T179T to object "oline"
endif
who can give me some suggestion about this ? Thanks .
Edited by: Chris Xu on Oct 31, 2008 6:51 AM

Hi Chirs,
I am facing the same problem but i am using c sharp and this is a windows application.
I tried to change the CodePage attribute by simply setting connection.codepage = "8040";
But i get an exception.
attempted to read or write protected memory.
I cant seem to change this. What should i do. Also do we have to set this at the point of connecting to the Sap system or when i'm calling the RFC. I tried both instances but none worked. Could you please help me out.
i am using VS 2008.
Thanks,
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