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Posted on January 2, 2023 (Updated on July 10, 2025)

ASCII encoding error when updating field content in SQL Server table

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How to set UTF-8 encoding in SQL Server?

UTF-8 is not a character set, it’s an encoding. The character set for UTF-8 is Unicode. If you want to store Unicode text you use the nvarchar data type. If the database would use UTF-8 to store text, you would still not get the text out as encoded UTF-8 data, you would get it out as decoded text.

How to insert UTF-8 characters in SQL Server?

Try this:

  1. DECLARE @t TABLE (t varchar(10) COLLATE Latin1_General_100_CI_AI_SC_UTF8); INSERT @t(t) VALUES(‘ h’),(N’ h’); SELECT t FROM @t;
  2. t. —-
  3. PRINT @sql;
  4. –PRINT @sql;
  5. SELECT t.
  6. SELECT TOP (2) * FROM dbo.[UTF8Test_ROW_50 % UTF8_50 UTF8] ORDER BY id;
  7. SELECT t.
  8. DECLARE @sql nvarchar(max) = N’DBCC FREEPROCCACHE;

 

Does SQL Server support UTF-8?

SQL Server 2019 (15. x) introduces an additional option for UTF-8 encoding. You can specify these options by appending them to the collation name.
 

How to convert ASCII value to character in SQL?

Microsoft SQL Server



A string function that converts an int ASCII code to a character. Return type – char(1). exp1 – is an integer from 0 through 255. NULL is returned if the integer expression is not in this range.

Should I use UTF-8 or ASCII?

UTF-8 VS ASCII – What’s the Difference? UTF-8 extends the ASCII character set to use 8-bit code points, which allows for up to 256 different characters. This means that UTF-8 can represent all of the printable ASCII characters, as well as the non-printable characters.
 

How do I change the encoding to UTF-8?

UTF-8 Encoding in Notepad (Windows)

  1. Open your CSV file in Notepad.
  2. Click File in the top-left corner of your screen.
  3. Click Save as
  4. In the dialog which appears, select the following options: In the “Save as type” drop-down, select All Files. In the “Encoding” drop-down, select UTF-8.
  5. Click Save.


How to check SQL Server encoding?

You can check the server level collation via the following command:

  1. SELECT CONVERT (varchar, SERVERPROPERTY(‘collation’)) AS ‘Server Collation’;
  2. SELECT name, collation_name FROM sys. databases;
  3. SELECT name, collation_name FROM sys.columns WHERE name = N’column name’;

 

How do I know if MySQL database is Unicode or non Unicode?

How to Determine if a Database is Unicode Enabled? select dbmsinfo(‘unicode_level’); The result will be 1 when unicode is enabled or 0 when unicode is not enabled.

What is encoding =’ UTF-8?

UTF-8 is an encoding system for Unicode. It can translate any Unicode character to a matching unique binary string, and can also translate the binary string back to a Unicode character. This is the meaning of “UTF”, or “Unicode Transformation Format.”
 

What is %27 encoded?

Your browser will encode input, according to the character-set used in your page.



ASCII Encoding Reference.

Character From Windows-1252 From UTF-8
& %26 %26
‘ %27 %27
( %28 %28
) %29 %29

How do I create a UTF-8 encoded text file?

Microsoft Word

  1. Click “Save As,” then choose “Plain Text (. txt)” from the “File Format” dropdown menu.
  2. After clicking “Save” you’ll get a new window asking about the text encoding.
  3. Select “Other Encoding” and choose UTF-8 from the right-side menu.
  4. Click OK. Boom! That’s it!


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