Question : Unicode character retrieval from MS-Access

Sir,
I have been using MS-Access 2000 with Windows XP.I am storing Indian Language (telugu ) data in the databse by using Gautami Font ( unicode characters).i can view them in the databse. but when i retrieve those values using JSP & display on web page i am ending up with (?) marks instead of the data.In JSP i have written the encoding part .The driver used is Type 1 JDBC-ODBC driver. The browser supports UTF-8.Can u pls let me know where the problem is & the solution for this.
  thanks in  advance.
 saritha.

Answer : Unicode character retrieval from MS-Access

Saritha

I did a search on the internet to find some info on your language,
I selected www.thatstelugu.com/
once you click on it, it brings up a Security Alert to install a Cockie, from BitStream WebFont player,
Clicking on their name took me to their site http://www.bitstream.com/,
One of the Group companies have a Font Forum http://www.myfonts.com/FontForums/
Why don't you check it out, there might be there something for you.

Please see http://www.aksharamala.com/forums/archive/index.php/f-62.html
for conversions of fonts programatically.

check http://www.software-x.com/software/hindi.html
for more details about the same.

A bit more about your Character set http://www.eki.ee/letter/sources.html

For what I can do, I did a small code where I usually get my Ansi chacater set  from,
Here you can do your conversion and see your Hex value of the character, I assigned it to a field called Text0:

For i = 1 To Len([Text0])
    OneChar = Mid([Text0], i, 1)
    MsgBox OneChar & "-" & Asc(OneChar) & "-" & Hex(Asc(OneChar))
Next i

Investigate to see how you were able to get (format 2) and build a conversion code like what I showed you.

Sorry, but seems, this is where you have to go further in investigation.

Good Luck,

jaffer