Combining two non-ascii languages in userform

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I have userform with 2 textbox's, each textbox is for a different non-ascii language.

The user fill the textbox's and press "Submit" then in my code I generate a string of SQL query (INSERT INTO query) and send this string to SQL Server (in the SQL Server I have a "stored procedure" that continues from there, but that's not important for my question).

The thing is that I get a question marks (??????????) insteadof the text that the user submitted, I can solve one language if I change the windows language for non-unicode programs, but I can select only one language there, the second language is still creates thos question marks.

Is it possible for a string variable (or any other variable) to hold a string with 2 non-ascii language so I can send my SQL string to SQL server ?
 
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I have userform with 2 textbox's, each textbox is for a different non-ascii language.

The user fill the textbox's and press "Submit" then in my code I generate a string of SQL query (INSERT INTO query) and send this string to SQL Server (in the SQL Server I have a "stored procedure" that continues from there, but that's not important for my question).

The thing is that I get a question marks (??????????) insteadof the text that the user submitted, I can solve one language if I change the windows language for non-unicode programs, but I can select only one language there, the second language is still creates thos question marks.

Is it possible for a string variable (or any other variable) to hold a string with 2 non-ascii language so I can send my SQL string to SQL server ?
How did you "change the windows language for non-unicode programs?" Did you change the system locale to a Unicode language?

I have my system locale set to traditional Chinese. I just created a userform with three texboxes and was able to enter traditional Chinese in one textbox, simplified Chinese in another, and copied and pasted Arabic to the third.

The problem may also be on the user's side, not on your side.
 
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How did you "change the windows language for non-unicode programs?" Did you change the system locale to a Unicode language?

I have my system locale set to traditional Chinese. I just created a userform with three texboxes and was able to enter traditional Chinese in one textbox, simplified Chinese in another, and copied and pasted Arabic to the third.

The problem may also be on the user's side, not on your side.
Ok, I was able to solve the problem and here are the conclusions:

1. The question marks that appear do not affect the text that will be send to SQL SERVER, even if it is concatenated with other text to a new variable.

2. The problem was probably within the stored procedure, although I had a very hard time checking it out there, because it's a long and very complex code that handles a lot of things, but my feeling that the problem is in the "dynamic SQL" that executes the SQL string I send there.

3. I solved the problem by sending a SQL string cleanly without the stored procedure.
 
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