To use a Unicode character set in SQL, specify the character set when creating or altering a database, table, or column. For example, you can use "UTF8" or "UTF16" to indicate Unicode encoding.

The Unicode character data format allows data to be exported from a SQL Server instance by using a code page that differs from the code page used by the client. [!INCLUDESQL Server Azure SQL Database ...

With the first public preview of SQL Server 2019, we announced support for the widely used UTF-8 character encoding as an import or export encoding, and as database-level or column-level collation for ...

OK. So, I inherited an ASP 3.0 web app that I just recently realized has a character encoding problem. Long story short, the data that users are submitting has started to become riddled with ...