Much like this question in MySQL, I am trying to retain special characters such emojis into an nvarchar
type column. However, any emojis are converted to "??". I have tried to reproduce the question's solution including changing column type and collation in SQL Server but haven't succeeded.
What I am attempting to do:
INSERT INTO TableName
(Id, Title, Description)
VALUES
(1, 'This is my title 😀','Here is a description with a 📻 radio');
Where Title
and Description
columns are nvarchar(255)
.
The resulting insert looks like:
| Id | Title | Description |
|----|---------------------|---------------------------------------|
| 1 | This is my title ?? | Here is a description with a ?? radio |
Using this to create the table
CREATE TABLE TableName(
Id INT PRIMARY KEY,
Title NVARCHAR(255),
Description NVARCHAR(255)
);
The database's collation is SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
INSERT INTO TableName(Title,Description)
VALUES (N'👍 🖒 🖓 🖕 🗑 🛦 ⁉ 😎 😔 😇 😥 😴 😭',
N'👍 🖒 🖓 🖕 🗑 🛦 ⁉ 😎 😔 😇 😥 😴 😭');
Use the prefix string literal with " N' <"my strange text"> ' "
Try this "select" statement as well:
SELECT N'👍 🖒 🖓 🖕 🗑 🛦 ⁉ 😎 😔 😇 😥 😴 😭'