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obscuregirl
March 23rd, 2007, 11:54 AM
Hi

I have a user who is using data from my SQL Server 2005 database for a webportal. One of my tables had a field that was type NText. The technology he is using couldn't cope with NText so i changed the data type to nvarchar instead. The user is now getting some superfluous characters coming back as part of the data in the field e.g. '12\r\n' where a space appears if looking at the data through something like Query Analyser. He was asking if I could change the character encoding to Unicode.

I thought that datatypes like Nvarchar were unicode anyway but I guess the fact that I changed the type might mean that I need to explicitly declare it as unicode. Does anyone know if this is the case?

thanks.