Help to retrieve Chinese characters from MS Access

[Ahmad Safri]

Hi all,
I really need your help. How do I retrieve chinese characters from MS Access 2000? I've been going through the forum..but can't really find one that can help me.
Thanks

[girish rateshwar]

Hi safri,
Im not sure of this, but setting the character set to UTF-8 should work, or may b UTF-16???

Have u added the chinese font support for your OS?

[Ahmad Safri]

Hi..
Yes..I've installed chinese characters...and I've tried UTF-8 and UTF-16, but I keep getting ???
Thanks

[John Lee]

Originally posted by Safri:
Hi..
Yes..I've installed chinese characters...and I've tried UTF-8 and UTF-16, but I keep getting ???
Thanks

In my experience, to view Chinese characters, you have to have some Chinese viewing software installed, and run the program before you can read Chinese.
And also remember there are many kinds of Chinese characters out there: big5, GB, ...

[Cindy Glass]

Link on adding Chinese fonts to the J2SE Platform.
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[Ahmad Safri]

Hi all,
Thank you for all your replies. Here is my code...
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import java.sql.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class StreamConverter {
static void writeOutput(byte[] str) {
try {
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("test.txt");
Writer out = new OutputStreamWriter(fos, "UTF-8");
fos.write(str);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {

try
{
Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
}

catch (java.lang.ClassNotFoundException e)
{
System.out.println("Rosak - tak jumpa class(jdbc driver): " + e.getMessage());
}

// Open the datasource
try
{
Properties prop = new java.util.Properties();
prop.put("useUnicode", "true");
prop.put("characterEncoding", "UTF-8");

String url = "jdbcdbc:cina";

Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, prop);
Statement stmt = con.createStatement(ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_INSENSITIVE, ResultSet.CONCUR_READ_ONLY);

ResultSet rec = stmt.executeQuery ("SELECT * FROM Test");

while(rec.next()) {

String xx = new String(rec.getString("question"));
byte ucode[] = xx.getBytes("UTF-8");
System.out.println("This is byte ucode: "+ucode);
String Display = new String(ucode, "UTF-8");

writeOutput(ucode);
}

stmt.close();

} catch (SQLException s) {
System.out.println("Error s DBase --> " + s.toString() + " " + s.getErrorCode() + " " + s.getSQLState());

}catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Error e DBase -->" + e.toString() + e.getMessage());
}
}
}
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Can anyone please.... tell me what's wrong with it....
I thank you in advance.
[ December 25, 2002: Message edited by: Ahmad Safri ]