i tried the vector utility program "ogr2ogr" to convert mdb to kml and still non-English characters are replaced by '?' -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Converting-MDB-File-With-Unicode-Characters-tp5158087p5158156.html Sent from the GDAL - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.