Dear all, Sorry if I post in the wrong list, but I've been tortured by the problem for quite sometime. I've been tring for several combinations, say BACKEND FRONTEND MULE_INTERNAL EUC_TW BIG5 EUC_LATIN1 EUC_TW EUC_TW BIG5 EUC_JP ...... ..... None of them can use varchar as fields, and insert "許" into the row. Can anyone help? Thanks Dave