🚀 go-pugleaf

I am not certain if this is an ADO problem, or some other issue, I hope
I am posting in the correct group. If I am not, please let me know.
I am connected to an MS Access 2002 Database which has Japanese characters in it.
I can see the Japanese characters in the database and on my form when I do not
discriminate the search criteria (SELECT * FROM altname). However, when I do
discriminate (SELECT * FROM altname WHERE altname LIKE '%JAPANESE CHARACTER%';
I do not receieve anything in my results. I have tried the same SQL in ACCESS
and it returns the correct data.

Code snippet:

  ADODataSetSearch->Active = false;
  WideString sql;
  sql = "SELECT type, taskname, alttype, alttaskname FROM search ";
  sql += "WHERE taskname LIKE '%";
  sql += edtMatch->Text;
  sql += "%' OR alttaskname LIKE '%";
  sql += edtMatch->Text;
  sql += "%'";
  ADODataSetSearch->CommandText = sql;
  ADODataSetSearch->Active = true;

If I type English into edtMatch field, I get good results, if I type Japanese,
I get nothing, even if the data is exactly cut/paste from database.

btw, edtMatch is Unicode enabled (it's a TnTEdit COntrol).

Any ideas?