June 7, 2013 at 2:49 pm
Does SQL server 2008 R2 support UTF-8 character encoding ?
Thanks.
June 7, 2013 at 2:55 pm
sudhakara (6/7/2013)
Does SQL server 2008 R2 support UTF-8 character encoding ?Thanks.
Yes. nchar and nvarchar
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186939.aspx
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June 8, 2013 at 10:22 am
sudhakara (6/7/2013)
Does SQL server 2008 R2 support UTF-8 character encoding ?Thanks.
No, not natively. SQL Server supports UCS-2 which is a subset of UTF-16 for Unicode data. In 2012 there is some support for supplementary characters via specialized collations, but still nothing specifically for UTF-8.
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June 12, 2013 at 3:58 am
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