I am trying to display japanese characters inside my delphi application. The database userenv('language') returns AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8. I set the code page in the registry to that value and I have tried a lot more like AMERICAN_AMERICA.JA16SJIS etc. Still the strings do not encode correctly for display. I am sure that the component I use (TNT controls) to display support japanese as I can directly program it to do so. I have gone through all unicode posts and tried everything else. What am I missing? Thanks

You will definitely need to explicitly use a Japanese character set for your NLS_LANG registry key. Other than that it comes down to the Windows Regional Language options, and of course the controls that eventually display the text.