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    Posted: 10 July 2011 at 1:26pm
One of my users is complaining they can't use Polish Chars in PM's:

http://www.scirra.com/forum/request-polish-language-letters-polacy-piszta_topic43467.html

Quote Suprising enough my PM when recived has question mark instead of every polish letters which made my PM virtualy imposible to read.

Is this to do with the charset?  Anything I can do to easily resolve this?
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Figured it out in the end if anyone has the same issue, you need to change the data type of PM_Message in tblPMMessage from Text to Nvarchar(MAX)
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You would need to change your page encoding to one that supports Polish. Using nvarchar(max) is not a good idea as it limits the number of characters to 4,000, doubles the storage size of your database, and would break items such as searches.
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Would ntext be a better option?  According to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187993.aspx text is non unicode so I have to take a unicode format to store them
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This would also break searches.

If the character encoding for your page supports the language then text data type will work fine.

Originally posted by Polish Polish wrote:

Jeśli kodowania znaków dla strony obsługuje język potem tekst typu danych będzie działać prawidłowo


The above is the translation to Polish and this forum uses the default database schema using 'text' datatype and UTF-8 page encoding. The collation for the SQL Server database uses Latin1_General_Cl_AS


Edited by WebWiz-Bruce - 13 July 2011 at 10:27am
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