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Topic: Polish characters

Posted By: Gullanian
Subject: Polish characters
Date 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" rel="nofollow - http://www.scirra.com/forum/request-polish-language-letters-polacy-piszta_topic43467.html

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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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 12 July 2011 at 9:04pm

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)

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 13 July 2011 at 7:48am

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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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 13 July 2011 at 10:05am

Would ntext be a better option? According to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187993.aspx" rel="nofollow - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187993.aspx text is non unicode so I have to take a unicode format to store them

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 13 July 2011 at 10:19am

This would also break searches.

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

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

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