Michael Coles: Sergeant SQL : unicode, international charactershttp://sqlblog.com/blogs/michael_coles/archive/tags/unicode/international+characters/default.aspxTags: unicode, international charactersenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.1)ICANN Approves International (國際) Characters for Domain Nameshttp://sqlblog.com/blogs/michael_coles/archive/2009/11/01/icann-approves-international-characters-for-domain-names.aspxMon, 02 Nov 2009 00:05:00 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:18448Mike C3http://sqlblog.com/blogs/michael_coles/comments/18448.aspxhttp://sqlblog.com/blogs/michael_coles/commentrss.aspx?PostID=18448http://sqlblog.com/blogs/michael_coles/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=18448Many people have complained about the space tradeoff involved in storing international characters in the database (using nvarchar instead of varchar data types, for instance). A lot of folks decided to go ahead and forego the ability to store international...(<a href="http://sqlblog.com/blogs/michael_coles/archive/2009/11/01/icann-approves-international-characters-for-domain-names.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://sqlblog.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=18448" width="1" height="1">SQL Server 2008SQL Serverunicodeinternational charactersvarcharnvarchar