Japanese text in MSSQL database

Hello, I'm working with an MSSQL 2000 database that contains Japanese characters in ntext columns. I'm not entirely sure how to see what encoding or charset it's using, but there is a ColdFusion admin application that can display the data in UTF8 as well as accept the data. I'm trying to access this data from PHP for import into a MySQL database, and I'm currently using the PDO ODBC driver. I had difficulty getting other drivers working when I began importing data, either due to the charset/encoding on these fields or due to the long text in some of the fields, and the PDO ODBC driver in PHP 5.2.0+ was the one that seemed to work the best. However, I'm just now realizing that the Japanese characters are being replaced with "?" characters when I do the select. I found I had this problem on the MySQL end before, but I solved it by adding some SQL calls when initializing the connection: "SET CHARACTER SET utf8", "SET collation_connection = 'utf8_general_ci'", "SET character_set_database = utf8", "SET character_set_server = utf8", "SET character_set_client = utf8", "SET character_set_filesystem = utf8", Is there something similar I need to do with MSSQL? Is there an option in the PDO ODBC driver I need to set somehow? I'm guessing there's probably a simple solution but thus far I've been unable to find anything. Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Mike