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Hi,

I need some pointers ( web sites most welcome ) on how I can create a
table to store Japanese Kanji characters.  I was told that it could be
done using varchar - but I could not find anything on this in
www.sybase.com.

Once created, how can I enter the data ?  Anyway with backslash
characters, etc ?  Tried but could not get it in.

On VB side which I am hoping to use to link to the Sybase, I have
found this article which seems to work fine :
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q158870

but the danger from this seems to be that I will be manupulating my
own integers from Sybase into Kanji character equivalents.

Any help will be most welcome as I have always being using ASCII.

Many thanks !
Terrance

        You would use one of the character sets that support
        Kanji and the correct datatypes - nchar and nvarchar.
        If you use Unicode rather than deckanji or eucjis or
        whatever, its a little different. Unicode might be
        the better way to go in the long run. ASE 12.5 has
        special unichar and univarchar datatypes for UTF16.

Quote:> Once created, how can I enter the data ?  Anyway with backslash
> characters, etc ?  Tried but could not get it in.

        Depends on your front end. Sybase have or did have a
        Unicode Developer's KIT (UDK) that had an input app.

Quote:> On VB side which I am hoping to use to link to the Sybase, I have
> found this article which seems to work fine :
>   http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q158870

> but the danger from this seems to be that I will be manupulating my
> own integers from Sybase into Kanji character equivalents.

        You don't really need to do it the silly MS way.

-am     ? 2002

Thanks !

Cheers,
Terrance