Is VARCHAR data type same as UTF-8?

Hello
Is data fields of varchar type internally encoded as UTF-8?
How is cyrillic text stored in varchar data fileds, as UTF-8 or not?No. Char, Varchar and Text are a CodePage representation.
If you don't want to have a lot of problems with Cyrillic and other things
like the Euro symbol; you should use nchar, nvarchar and ntext instead.
See:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ataencoding.asp
Sylvain Lafontaine, ing.
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> Hello
> Is data fields of varchar type internally encoded as UTF-8?
> How is cyrillic text stored in varchar data fileds, as UTF-8 or not?
>|||You can check windows region ,SQL Server settings and Database,Column
Collation.
To support globalization, you use Unicode data type such as
nchar,nvarchar,ntext.
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> Hello
> Is data fields of varchar type internally encoded as UTF-8?
> How is cyrillic text stored in varchar data fileds, as UTF-8 or not?
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