I have successfully copied and pasted various versions of Chinese (GB, Big 5, etc.) from a Chinese Word Processor like NJStar or WenLin into an Acucobol working storage. If you're running Windows with character support or using a reader such as NJStars, the characters display correctly. You can even save the characters pasted into an entry field and display them from your data base. Takes a little trial and error but it works.
To satisfy my curiosity what is your application?
Vins Nash