characters stored in databse are displayed As is ...

HI list, i m having a problem plz help

Problem: I pasted some japanase characters in a Html text field and submited
form to an ASP file and using ADO i inserted the value of text field in a
MsAccess database table (field:Name, Type:test) some this type of characters
were stored in DB "Œv‰æ‚̃}ƒl[ƒWƒƒ[ " now when i query the DB and make a
xml packet, then using transformNodeToObject i transfrom it and make HTML,
when i view these characters on browse these characters as is r written on
the browser,

so what to do to show the actual language (japanese) characters

PLz Help
Qazi Asim