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ODBC connection to Qliksense: Language issue

Hi,

mto

I am connecting to a database which has multilingual data.But qlik sense displays the data as ???????

For example running the below query in MYSQL gives the below output

select userfirstname,userlastname from users where pkuserid in (493982,339708,349756);

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But doing the same on Qlik sense desktop version through an ODBC connection gives me the below output

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Hence I am missing on the data here !! Please suggest a way to fix this

For people who say QLIKSENSE only supports one font, I uploaded an excel with multiple fonts and QLIK displays both of it. Below is the snapshot and attched data

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SergeyMak
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Hi Vinol,

the issue may be in the ODBC, but not in Qlik.

I remember I specified sometime ago the codepage for odbc connection. It make me think that it can have only one codepage in a moment.

That's why I would advise to try OLEDB driver and connection. I haven't heard about such kind of limitations there.

This is just my guess, but it worth to try

Regards,

Sergey

Regards,
Sergey
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Tried with OLEDB connection. Still the same issue. Any leads ?

mtochooco_co

Michael_Tarallo
Employee
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Hello Vinol,

I will take a look - but I believe this has something to do with your character set or codepage similar to what Sergey mentioned.

Can you check out this thread utf 8 - MySQL UTF8 Data Not Being Displayed Properly - Stack Overflow and let me know how you do?

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Mike Tarallo
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But I need to access the data through Qlik Desktop ODBC connector. I have set the column to UTF8 in MySQL table structure, but I cannot set it while pulling data from ODBC connector in QLIK sense desktop