title: How To Read Arabic charset data in Asp.net
body: <p>I am using this code to read data from Oracle Database. That data stored in Oracle is Navarchar2 data type but when It it display in gridview it looks like this. ?&amp; ? ?????? ??? ? My database Charaacter set is WE8MSWIN1252 </p>
  
  <p>Here is mY code through which I am reading from Oracle database.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
        Dim con = New OleDbConnection("Data Source=cms; User ID=cms20112012; Password=??????; provider=OraOLEDB.Oracle")           
         con.open()
          Dim cmd As New OleDbCommand("Select to_char(grower_Name) grower from V_GROW", con)
          Dim da As New OleDbDataAdapter(cmd)
          Dim ds As New DataSet
          Dim I As Long
          da.Fill(ds, "V_GROW")
          GridView1.DataSource = ds
          GridView1.DataBind()
          For I = 0 To ds.Tables("V_GROW").Rows.Count - 1
              Dim grower As String = ds.Tables("V_GROW").Rows(I).Item("grower")
              grower = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(grower))
              Label1.Text = grower
          Next I
          con.close()
      End Sub
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Please anyone help me to get out of this issue</p>