Unicode Character String Literals in SQL Server Transact-SQL
Q
How To Enter Unicode Character String Literals in SQL Server Transact-SQL?
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A
Unicode characters are multi-byte characters. They are very hard to be entered as string literals, because it requires:
- The SQL client tool to support Unicode characters. The command line tool 'sqlcmd' does not support Unicode. But SQL Server Management Studio does support Unicode.
- A special Unicode character input tool to allow you to enter multi-byte Unicode characters.
But if you know the code value of a Unicode character, you can enter it with the help of the NCHAR(int) function. For example:
-- A Unicode string of some interesting characters PRINT NCHAR(9733)+NCHAR(9734)+NCHAR(9792)+NCHAR(9794); ----- ★☆♀♂
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