I need a little bit of help.......

I need to have Greek encoding in a vb project which stores strings (nvarchar) and textareas (ntext) in SQL database. Although I have solved the problem with the collation of Greeks in DB, the VB.NET converts the input content to latin encoding. for example, the Greek 'Ä' is converted to 'D'.


Which is ,if it exists, the encoding method for the label.text or textarea.value in order to change the encoding of the content from Latin to Greek before sending it to SQL?????????



Thank you in advance!