scrambled character,sql2000 with table name and colum using japanese character lazarus / 16-Databases ---------------------------------------------------------------------- kukumaiwu · 2010-10-07 03:44 excuse me for my question. i am new to lazarus and pascal. just follow the page below, i have successed several times in getting the data from sql server 2000 sp4(these table names donot contain japanese characters). http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,3329.0.html but also failed several times 'cause the table name is using japanese characters those data i get is unreadable also due to the japan characters in it of cause the columns are the same how should i do? regards, kukumaiwu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- kukumaiwu · 2010-10-07 03:59 there are two snapshot of this question 1.the table NOUSINGJPCHARS http://www.flickr.com/photos/48299441@N00/5058656273/ 2.the table USINGJPCHARS http://www.flickr.com/photos/48299441@N00/5058656275/ regards, kukumaiwu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lacak2 · 2010-10-08 04:08 So problem is only in column names, not in data ? What SQL do you Open ? If you change SQL to not return any data and Open, same error happens ? (select * from table where 1=2) What version of FPC do you use ?)