Posted by Roy Harvey on 01/21/07 13:18

On 20 Jan 2007 17:10:21 -0800, "Denis" <k9kondop@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Thank you for your reply.
>
>That would mean though that the database would be double the size.
>Right? And of course the nvarchat field can have up to 4000
>characterts. Correct?

The char and varchar columns would double in size, yes. If you have
three such diverse languages to support that seems (to me) to be a
small price to pay.

Yes, the maximum column width would be reduced to 4000 characters. If
you are using SQL Server 2005 you have the alternative of
NVARCHAR(max).

>Finally, are you sure that both Greek and Chinese are supported in
>Unicode? I checked and Greek seems ok, but Chinese...I am not so
>sure. Does anyone know?

I am confident that Chinese support in UNICODE is at least as good as
Chinese support in any single-byte code page / collation.

Roy Harvey
Beacon Falls, CT

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