I have been putting togther a japanese shopping cart in ASP that calls on a access db to get japanese characters for the shop (japanese characters display in the db fine). Everything works well but when the asp builds the data from the db my browser displays the japanese as question marks eg

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I am using Shift_JIS encoding on each page and I am using arial unicode as my access db font.

I have included my code. To see the problem go start.asp / veiwbycat then press japanese and under discription you will see the

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Any help would be greatly appreciated

I fixed it (with the help of my code friend aka Officer)

just make sure the first line in your asp pages is


<%@ Language=VBScript CODEPAGE=932 %>

and it works


pure genius