Question : ASP page displays question marks  instead of chinese characters from a MySQL database

Hi,
When I try to display a string containing Chinese characters from a MySQL database, question marks are displayed instead of the Chinese characters.

***Please note I am using ASP and MySQL 5.0.

The field in the database with the Chinese characters has the following settings
Type = varchar(2000)
Collation = utf8_unicode_ci

My code is attached

Thank you so much  in advance,

Drew
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<%
 
Dim connectstr
Dim oConn
Dim oRS
 
Response.CodePage = 950
Response.CharSet = "utf8"
 
 
connectstr = "DRIVER={MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver}; SERVER=ABC.net; DATABASE=ABC; UID=ABC;PASSWORD=ABC;charset=utf8" 
 
%>

 



 
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<%
Set oConn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
oConn.Open connectstr
qry = "SELECT * FROM QS2Questions WHERE Section ='1'"
 
Set oRS = oConn.Execute(qry)
 
 
 
if not oRS.EOF then
while not oRS.EOF
 
%>
 
 
 
		
<%
 
oRS.movenext
wend
oRS.close
end if
 
Set oRs = nothing
Set oConn = nothing
 
%>
	

			
			
 <%=oRS("Question")%>

 
 


					
 

				
 
 
				


 
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Answer : ASP page displays question marks  instead of chinese characters from a MySQL database

Chinese AFAIK can't be contained as UTF8 - try setting the charset to UTF-16. Also, I'm not sure what means - try removing it.

Stilgar.
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