Gift Peddie (8/19/2009)

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Portuguese is standard Latin alphabet western European language that you can support by using System.Text.Encoding in .NET and using either Portuguese Windows collation so you can separate Portugal Portuguese from either Brazilian or Angolan. That is going to VS2005/8 Advanced save as and save you code as Portuguese.

It helps if you start with translated text so it is just simple encoding and collation, in .NET 3.5 most known languages and text encoding formats are supported by default. Post again if you still need help.

Gift Peddie (8/19/2009)

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If you are storing more than Portuguese in one column then you may need Nvarchar definition of your text columns data type and then using Portuguese collation on either table level or column level. You could also add it in your T-SQL code. Here is the System.Text.Encoding page and the SQL Server Windows collation page.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.encoding.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143508.aspx