Re: MS SQL Server, JDBC, and Unicode?
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009, Arne Vajh?j wrote:
Tom Anderson wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Arne Vajh?j wrote:
Tom Anderson wrote:
Has anyone made SQL Server work with unicode in java?
I can't get it not to work.
Thanks for doing this, Arne - i should probably have tried it myself. It
eliminates one area of doubt about the problem, but still leaves me none
the wiser as to why the system won't do unicode right. Maybe it's
constructing SQL strings internally, rather than using PreparedStatements,
and not using the N'?' syntax. I really don't think that's the case, though
- i've seen evidence from debugging and stack traces that
PreparedStatements are indeed used.
We will need more info to trouble shoot.
code
what is being inserted
what is being selected out
All of that is under the hood where i can't really get at it, sadly.
Although i could trap the queries and the results with the SQL Server
profiler.
And i could run the app under a debugger and breakpoint all the
interesting methods, to see what's actually being called.
If i can find time to work on this (full unicode support is not a high
priority right now), and if i get an answer, i'll post my findings here,
in case anyone's interested.
tom
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