MS Access query returning Chinese characters - possible table corruption?

Question

I copied and pasted a new version of the data into my MS Access table and now I\'m getting weird characters in my queries. Essentially if I say:

SELECT a,          


        

Answer 1

Here is yet another option, which I just tried successfully. I was updating a query that someone else had created, and the author had included every field in the Group By clause, to return distinct records. I removed the entire Group By clause and inserted DISTINCT right after SELECT. No more Chinese. This may not be possible in some situations, but in this case it was a simple fix.

Also, I would not have thought of this if not for the insights offered above. Thanks everyone!