Japanese support for SqlClient??

Hi -

Question : Does the .Net 1.1 framework SqlClient class
support commands that have been encoded in the Shift-JIS
character set?

I'm having a hell of a time getting Shift-JIS inserted into
the DB. Here's what I'm trying to do:

1. All source data is read as UTF-8 (from XML).

2. sourceData is converted from UTF-8 to Shift-JIS via the
Text.Encoding class.

3. SqlClient, SqlCommand, SqlConnection objects are
created. SqlCommand text is set from the sourceData.

4. Execute query -- the data is stored on a SQLServer2000
db in a table with the relevant text fields set as nvarchar
datatype.

Later, I'm calling the data back from Classic ASP. And
it's garbage -- not viewable as UTF-8 or Shift-JIS.

Any help would be MUCH appreciated!

-b