Unicode output to UTF-8 text file problem

I can use the FM20.DLL control inside VB6 and the application can view / edit / add Simplified Chinese. However, when I export the data to a text file ,some Simplified character turned to ? instead of a valid Simplified Chinese

Value stored in the SQL2000 database is
滁州市发生建市

When export to a notepad text file, it output as
滁州市?建市

I checked through the internet and the ADO data control 6.0 did support unicode and I think it is the problem when it output to the notepad which I use an array to hold the data, code as below
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Dim o_Container
Open "ABC.TXT" for output as #1
o_Container(1) = adoh.recordset.fields("SimplifiedCharacter")
print #1, o_Container(1)
Print #1, adoh.recordset.fields("SimplifiedCharacter")
Close #1
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'ABC.TXT contains
滁州市?建市
滁州市?建市
===================================================
Where adoh.recordset.fields("SimplifiedCharacter") did hold the correct value "滁州市发生建市"

Thanks in advance

I tested using copy & paste some Simplified chinese from yahoo.com.hk and paste it to EXCEL and write a VBA macro to output to a text file, the result is same to my VB output, some display ?.

I think it is the problem on VB / VBA when export to a text file using

Open ABC.TXT for output as #1
Print #1 Cells(1,1) 'Where cells(1,1) contains simplified chinese
close #1

So, please post another method to export data to a text file

Thanks

i believe you need to put a BOM sequence at the beginning of your file, at least that worked when i tried to save some arabic

VB Code:

ReDim bom(5)
bom(0) = &HEF
bom(2) = &HBB
bom(4) = &HBF
Print #1, bom;

then continue with the code you posted above

to get more information see this thread http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hlight=unicode

also look for post by merri he has some links in his signature