so what can I do now? HELP!!~~~********************************************************************** To discribe my situation again: I am currently designing a chinese resource repository using JSP and MS Access. The data in Access is in Chinese. Case 1: when I enter data in to db through website, the chinese characters can store in Access nicely in Chinese. Case2: When I try to retrieve data from db to webpage, all the chinese charactors become "Luan Ma". Most of the "Luan Ma" are question marks "???" I have been trying to solve this problem for 2 days, but still could not find an solution there are some reference, but I still could not get it. http://www.itpub.net/247487.html http://www.java-cn.com/bbs-jsp/show.jsp?id=1574&forum=chinese http://www.weste.net/html/200405/20040521QBI075546.html Do you have any idea how to solve the proble? what is the default chinese Unicode in MS access? IE? JSP? Tomcat?