Question : Connect to a Crosstab query in Access from Excel

I am connecting to Accesss 2003 from Excel 2003 using an ODBC connection. I want the query results to load directly into Excel. This works with Select queries not with the Crosstab query I want to see. Is this simply not possible and, if so, why? Otherwise could you help, please? I am getting a message box with this message...
[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver]Invalid character value for cast specification on column number 28 (9)

Many thanks

Answer : Connect to a Crosstab query in Access from Excel

>> it did not seem to work fully idn punny is xn--48j.net which translates in to U.net

So where is it exactly translated to U.net from xn--48j.net.
Kindly check that one out..

if it is showing as boxes in SQL Server, then it was a Unicode character for sure and if you have the language pack installed in your server, it would display that properly.
Else the unicode characters are tampared as you mentioned earlier and hence you haven't passed that correctly to your SQL Server..

And as mentioned earlier, have you prefixed your idn like N'xn--48j.net' so that your unicode characters are not lost..