This bug is being fixed but need to use a conversion file to load.For example:To import foreign character shapefile correctly using shp2sde command, you will need to use a conversion file and convert the column type as nstring.For example, in the Russian shapefile, you have several columns contained Russian characters.To create an conversion file, use notepad and write the following line in the file:<shpCol> [sdeCol] [type] [size] [nDecs] [NOT_NULL]If the first field called "Fullname" contain Russian, then specify the following line in the conversion text file:FULLNAME FULLNAME nstring 100Then save this file as conversion.txt.Now you will use the following syntax to load this shapefile:shp2sde -o create -u map -p map -l Russian,shape -f <a href="file:C:/temp/russian.shp" target="_blank">C:\temp\russian.shp</a> -a file=<a href="file:C:/temp/conversion.txt" target="_blank">C:\temp\conversion.txt</a> -i 5151Added on 08/14/08 by Shwu-Jing Jeng