I've hit an issue with UTF-8 characters and having had a trawl around the here and the web I can find similar issues but everything I have tried doesn't work. For the record I'm self taught so feel free to assume i've made a rooky mistake and be gentle with me.
I'm accessing 2 Db's one Oracle and one SQL Server via odbc connection to pull data into Access and Excel. Whenever I pull Japanese / Taiwanese / Korean characters I either get jumbled ???? or similar jumbled special characters. (European speial characters however display correctly). For the Oracle connection I know the database is configured correctly as I can view the data set via the UI and it displays correctly. (I have no UI for the SQL Server but assume the data is correct there). My TNSNAMES entry is as below.
database1_app.PROD = (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS_LIST = (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(PORT=1521)(HOST=server1.xx99.company.net)) (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(PORT=1521)(HOST=server2.xx99.company.net)) (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(PORT=1521)(HOST=server3.xx99.company.net)) ) (CONNECT_TIMEOUT=10)(RETRY_COUNT=5)(RETRY_DELAY=2)(TRANSPORT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT=2) (LOAD_BALANCE=off) (FAILOVER=on) (CONNECT_DATA= (SERVER=DEDICATED) (SERVICE_NAME=oracle_conn) (FAILOVER_MODE=(TYPE=SELECT)(METHOD=BASIC)(RETRIES=180)(DELAY=5)) ))SQL Server connection string is server4.xx99.company.net,1128