Database Software

Hi Team,

I want to store the respective escaped unicode characters for the simplified chinese characters. The stored content is to be converted to actual simplified chinese characters and shown on browser or PDF file. When I hard code those escaped unicode characters in a program, it is working fine. But when I store it in a database; pull those esacaped unicode characters from database and try to convert them into actual simplified chinese characters, in order to show on a browser or PDF file, is not working (after converting using "UTF8", it is still displaying the escaped unicode characters whatever pulled from database not the expecting simplified chinese characters).

Can you please help me to know the reason behind this behavior (I am suspecting at database charset) and also help me to get any suggestions/guide lines/references of which meet this requirement?

Thank you in advance.

Best Regards,
Mallaiah Papinni