Saving Hebrew text as nvarchar

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Saving Hebrew text as nvarchar

mjohnson 71479

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October 9, 2019 at 3:02 pm
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Is there something special I need to do to be able to save some Hebrew text in my table? I have the column set as nvarchar(max) yet when i do something like this

It returns
```
ScriptIDLanguageIDSectionIDScriptText
671113?????? ??? ?? ??????, ???? ???
```
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Lowell

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October 9, 2019 at 5:05 pm
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your query did not appear, but i suspect it has to do with implicit conversions.
you have to use the N'' denotation to make sure SQL knows it is nvarchar data.

here is a very simple example; the first returns question marks, the second the expected characters.
```
SELECT '??????','??' --SELECT Database,AnimalName in Japanese
SELECT N'??????',N'??' --SELECT Database,AnimalName in Japanese
```
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Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323504 More actions · Answer 1

ok the forum converts to varchar as well! so my nvarchar string characters got converted to question marks!

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183698 More actions · Answer 2

mjohnson 71479 wrote:

Is there something special I need to do to be able to save some Hebrew text in my table? I have the column set as nvarchar(max) yet when i do something like this
It returns
ScriptIDLanguageIDSectionIDScriptText
671113?????? ??? ?? ??????, ???? ???

It might be a diplay issue, or maybe you're not saving it correctly. I can't say because you added your query as an image that can't be seen instead of copying and pasting the code.

Here's an example that worked correctly.

CREATE TABLE #SampleData(
    SomeText NVARCHAR(MAX));

INSERT INTO #SampleData
VALUES( N'??? ??????? ?????');

SELECT * FROM #SampleData;

DROP TABLE #SampleData;

Luis C.
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mjohnson 71479 SSC Eights! Points: 846 More actions · Answer 3

Thank you. I saw that it changed it to varchar and edited my original post to be an image of my query

Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183698 More actions · Answer 4

Now I see the problem and the reason behind the image that I can see now.

Here's the image of the example.

hebrew query

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mjohnson 71479 SSC Eights! Points: 846 More actions · Answer 5

Do I need to make any changes when it is saved via SPROC?

Here is the Current SPROC

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[AddButtons]

@LanguageID int,
@ButtonText nvarchar(200),
@ButtonID int

AS

SET NOCOUNT ON

IF EXISTS (SELECT ButtonText FROM dbo.Buttons WHERE LanguageID = @LanguageID AND ButtonID = @ButtonID)
BEGIN
UPDATE
dbo.Buttons
SET
ButtonText = @ButtonText
WHERE
LanguageID = @LanguageID 
AND ButtonID = @ButtonID
END
ELSE
BEGIN
INSERT
dbo.Buttons
VALUES
(
@LanguageID,
@ButtonText,
@ButtonID
)
END

I ask because I was using ADO.NET cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue method without first defining the SqlDbType and it saved as varchar i.e. the question marks

Once I changed the code to use the add method and then defined as SqlDbType.NVarChar it worked.

Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183698 More actions · Answer 6

Here's an article addressing your problem when using AddWithValue.

https://blogs.msmvps.com/jcoehoorn/blog/2014/05/12/can-we-stop-using-addwithvalue-already/

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mjohnson 71479 SSC Eights! Points: 846 More actions · Answer 7

Thank you Luis! I must not be wording my Google Queries properly because after I did a few searches I could not find anything on that that provided a lick of information to me.