newbie in C# 2003, saving Asian characters to database problem

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Hope I'm posting in the right place. Have spent more hours than i
would like on this problem and still have not solved it. I'm using
SQL Server for the db.

I have a GUI application with 2 multi-line textboxes that can be
populated with Asian characters. I can't get the Asian characters to
save to the database. (Bizarrely enough, when I manually saved a few
Asian characters in the database table, they displayed on the GUI with
no problems, and without using extra code, either. Thought I could do
a Save without problems, but got "???")


In trying to Save, I've initialized and used StreamReader with the
"using System.IO" namespace. That didn't work, seems the application
went looking for a file with the character name. Also tried an Int32
conversion(?) for the textbox, which turned it into a byte array.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Hints? Anything?

Thanks in advance.

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