How to insert Thai language

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How to insert Thai language

charan-703265

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November 27, 2008 at 7:08 pm

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Hi,
I need to insert Thai fonts thru insert SQL statement from query analyzer or thru ASP coding. If i insert, i see only junk characters (like ?????). If I copy and paste in to table from Enterprise manager i am able to see the Thai text clearly. Why this happens? any idea? How to solve this problem. anybody pls reply asap.
Thanks in advance

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Gift Peddie SSC Guru Points: 73570 More actions · Answer 1

Thai is one of the right to left languages as Arabic so you need to define the column or table or database with Thai collation and Nvarchar/Nchar/Ntext data type.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa258233(SQL.80).aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa176553(SQL.80).aspx

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Gift Peddie

moes-1066295 SSC Veteran Points: 225 More actions · Answer 2

Hi,

I have written some pages in asp.net and i use adodb to enter into a MSSQL 2000 database.

I made a form and i can enter thai characters in it.

I use to following to enable thai characters

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load

Response.Charset = "tis-620"

End Sub

Now I enter thai into a textfield (??? is my text and the form field is named xlate) and i do a request.form and I get ??? back and i write it on the screen. Happy so far.

Now I use the following to update into the database:

objConn.Execute("Update tl_translate Set tl_th = '" & Request.Form("xlate") & "' Where tl_id = " & Request("tl_id"))

I get a ? in the database and when i write the database value on the screen (webpage) i get a ? too.

I made the field in the database a nvarchar and use Thai_CI_AS collation.....

If someone can tell me where i go wrong..I will give him/here a cookie 🙂

moes-1066295 SSC Veteran Points: 225 More actions · Answer 3

This seems to work....

objConn.Execute("Update tl_translate Set tl_th = N'" & Request.Form("xlate") & "' Where tl_id = " & Request("tl_id"))

I'll eat the cookie myself 🙂

pavel0444i SSC Enthusiast Points: 116 More actions · Answer 4

It is a critical thing to insert thai language. It has similarity as arabic language.

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moes-1066295 SSC Veteran Points: 225 More actions · Answer 5

What I find funny/wierd/stupid....

There are two ways to make thai characters available on a webpage:

1) Set the charset (code behind)

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load

Response.Charset = "tis-620"

End Sub

2) In the meta tag (html)

meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-874">

This should do the same, AFAIK, but it seems it dont. When i do 1) and make a form and submit that form, the characters get messed up. When I do 2) all works well.

So you really need to do 2) and then use the right collation and insert statement to insert into you database. I think that it is funny/wierd/stupid that there is difference between 1) and 2)