hi , i have an issue with ssrs reports 2005 with some japanese characters not displaying properly, i have a text "14歳 フランス留学" which is being pulled from database and i need to convert this text to unicode(utf-8) format. i tried the following code to do that codePageEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(codePage) codePageBytes = System.Text.Encoding.[Default].GetBytes(codePageValue) unicodeBytes = System.Text.Encoding.Convert(codePageEncoding, System.Text.Encoding.Unicode, codePageBytes) unicodeValue = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetString(unicodeBytes) Return System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(unicodeValue) with codepage 936 for japan. i am supposed to get the output as 14 which is not coming... i tried different options but could not proceed. i used code option in layout properties of the report for coding.. Can someone help me on this .. Regards Achuth

i got the solution for this issue... i fixed the issue by decoding the text Public Shared Function ConvertToUnicode(ByVal codePageValue As String) As String Dim encoder As New System.Text.UTF8Encoding() Dim utf8Decode As System.Text.Decoder = encoder.GetDecoder() Dim todecode_byte As Byte() = System.Text.Encoding.[Default].GetBytes(codePageValue) Dim charCount As Integer = utf8Decode.GetCharCount(todecode_byte, 0, todecode_byte.Length) Dim decoded_char As Char() = New Char(charCount - 1) {} utf8Decode.GetChars(todecode_byte, 0, todecode_byte.Length, decoded_char, 0) Dim result As String = New [String](decoded_char) return result End Function which solved the issue , now i am getting proper text.