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SQL Server Collation and Unicode Data Type

  • January 3, 2006 at 12:06 pm

    #170456

    Hi Every one,

    I got to create a new database for my application which is going to support the following countries:

    United States

    Argentina

    Australia

    France

    Germany

    Mexico

    Spain

    United Kingdom

    What is the Database Collation I need to set up and Do I need to create any unicode data type columns.

    Basically my question do I need to create a unicode supporting database for these countries ?

    Thanks,

    Ganesh

  • January 4, 2006 at 7:51 am

    #612608

    I would suggest that you use unicode to ensure you can handle any strange characters that may arise.  There's no single codepage that covers both spanish, english, etc that I know of?  Unicode will also allow you to easily expand to other countries with very different alphabets with little changes to you DB

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