> No matter what sort of text encoding I choose in, say, Notepad+, it doesn't display the Russian (Cyrillic) characters. Are you opening the database in notepad+? If so, that's the problem: the db is a binary file and a text editor won't be able to make any sense of it. Have you tried something like: ``` echo .dump | sqlite3 THE_DBFILE > mydb.sql ``` (Or the equivalent for your platform.) And then opening the resulting SQL file (as opposed to database file) in notepad+?