what am i doing wrong -- char(240)

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what am i doing wrong -- char(240)

goher2000

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January 16, 2018 at 1:40 pm

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what I am doing wrong, why the result is '=' ?
declare @C table ( c1 varchar(10) )
insert into @C select '≡'
select * from @C

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 1

goher2000 - Tuesday, January 16, 2018 1:40 PM
what I am doing wrong, why the result is '=' ?
declare @C table ( c1 varchar(10) )
insert into @C select 'â‰¡'
select * from @C

Try this:

declare @C table ( c1 nvarchar(10) )

insert into @C select N'â‰¡'

select * from @C

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goher2000 - Tuesday, January 16, 2018 1:40 PM
what I am doing wrong, why the result is '=' ?
declare @C table ( c1 varchar(10) )
insert into @C select 'â‰¡'
select * from @C

You need to add some N's to handle unicode characters.
declare @C table ( c1 NVARCHAR(10) ) insert into @C select N'â‰¡'

select * from @C

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goher2000 SSCertifiable Points: 5479 More actions · Answer 3

it didn't work, probably something to do with collation, I am on SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS

print CONVERT(VARCHAR(3), ASCII('=')) + ' = ' + CHAR(240)

print CONVERT(VARCHAR(3), ASCII(N'=')) + ' = ' + CHAR(240)

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goher2000 - Tuesday, January 16, 2018 2:03 PM
it didn't work, probably something to do with collation, I am on SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
print CONVERT(VARCHAR(3), ASCII('â‰¡')) + ' = ' + CHAR(240)
print CONVERT(VARCHAR(3), ASCII(N'â‰¡')) + ' = ' + CHAR(240)

Try

print nchar(0x2261)

drew.allen SSC Guru Points: 76944 More actions · Answer 5

goher2000 - Tuesday, January 16, 2018 2:03 PM
it didn't work, probably something to do with collation, I am on SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
print CONVERT(VARCHAR(3), ASCII('â‰¡')) + ' = ' + CHAR(240)
print CONVERT(VARCHAR(3), ASCII(N'â‰¡')) + ' = ' + CHAR(240)

You need to use N'â‰¡' instead of 'â‰¡'. You need to use UNICODE() instead of ASCII. You need to use NVARCHAR(4) instead of VARCHAR(3).

SELECT CONVERT(NVARCHAR(5), UNICODE(N'â‰¡')) + ' = ' + CHAR(240)

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January 17, 2018 at 7:06 am

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thanks guys