title: Read Cyrillic characters to VBA variable
body: <p>I would like to read value from Excel cell containing Russian characters to VBA string variable or variant variable (for matrix). Suppose in <code>A1</code> cell we have Russian characters (displayed properly).</p>
  
  <p>When I read it as <code>MyString=Range("A1").Value</code> the variable <code>MyString</code> reads as <code>?????????????????????????????????150???50</code></p>
  
  <p>Simmilarly this test fails:</p>
  
  <pre><code>? Activecell.Value
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I dump string to file with this code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Dim myFile As String
  Dim N As Integer
  N = FreeFile()
  myFile = "C:\MyFileName.txt"
  Open myFile For Output As #N
  Print #N, SQL
  Close #N
  Debug.Print myFile
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get <code>?????</code> </p>