encoding problem

[menwn]

Hi
I have a MS Access db containing greek characters. These characters cannot be read. It is like this: ÃÅÙÑÃÉÁÄÇÓ. Is it possible to restore with any way my data? (client names and addresses.) I have tried to export the data in Excel and Word but nothing changes. Moreover I have tried using ADPDBExplorer but still nothing. Any ideas?

thanks in advance
menwn

 

[DrSimon]

You need a Greek font. I did a surf and came up with this that looks useful for you.

http://www.hri.org/fonts/wXP.html

 

[xlhelp]

Your post doesn't explain if the whole string has these characters or just ocurrences of these in a string.

BTW, those characters don't look Greek to me. They are definitely accented characters but not Greek.

Look on Search Engines for multi substitute. There are a number of posts.

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[menwn]

Thanks, I do have greek fonts installed, after all I have XP home edition Greek Version.

xhelp: The whole string has these characters. What is multi substitute?

thanks

 

[xlhelp]

Can you supply a couple more examples. And.... do you know what the string is actually supposed to be? Meaning what does ÃÅÙÑÃÉÁÄÇÓ represent?

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