Chinese character are written as question marks in the SQL database.

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I am using ADO .net to write a string to a field in a table of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database.
I am using SqlBulkCopy::WriteToServer api to write to SQL database.
The data type of the column in Sql database table is of type varchar2. If I change the datatype to nvarchar the chinese characters are written properly. But I think it should work with data type varchar2 also.
Please help.
Thanks in advance.

Posted 4-Apr-11 21:25pm

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Prerak Patel · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-04T21:27:00

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No, nvarchar supports Unicode, while varchar doesn't.
You have to use nvarchar only for chinese character support.

Posted 4-Apr-11 21:27pm

Prerak Patel

Updated 4-Apr-11 21:29pm

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