Hi mates, A project that I’ve got today requires me to store and retrieve hindi characters into the database. It’s a windows based software, hence I’m going to use c# as front end and sql server as database. Since I haven’t worked on this kind of application previously, I’ve been trying to figure out how can it be done. Those who don’t know, hindi is the national language of India which is widely spoken across the nation. Basically, I think I need to store and retrieve Unicode based values, so does someone have any idea about how can I do it? I know that defaultly it stores the values in ansi format, hence something need to be done for storing and retrieving values in Unicode. Just now, I was told that the controls available with "Microsoft Forms 2.0 Object Library" are capable of showing the unicode texts. It’s a bit confusing to me, since I have had no experience of this kind of something in past. If any of you have some idea about how is it done, please share with me asap, will be of real help. I will look forward for your early responses. Cheers! Prateek agarwal. __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind