Hi, I am using rodbc package to connect with Sql Server 2005. I have a table which contains some japanese characters. Now I want to use these japanese characters as labels in simple x y plot? Here is the data in the table ??????? 35355 ????????? 8417 I want to read this data from database table and plot it using R and give xlabels as japanese words . How is it possible in R ?? -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to-read-japanese-characters-from-a-database-file-tp3095466p3095466.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.