Thanks for Your reply.

> Ask for the log of the export - see if there are warnings about
> possible charset conversion.
>
> Another question - are the local characters stored in
> (var)char, or Nvarchar data types?

The exported file looks OK. If you just view it as ANSI text (i.e.
windows-1250 codepage), all the texts look OK, the national characters are
there ant they are the correct ones. That would suggest that the varchar
type was used (provided varchar/nvarchar have similar meaning as in MSSQL,
namely non-unicode/unicode).

DW