Client-Side Programming with Unicode

The topics in this section explain how to preserve the integrity of character data when you program client-side database applications.

In This Section

Topic Description

Managing Data Conversion Between Client/Server Code Pages

Explains the implications of preserving character data integrity when neither the server nor the client is Unicode-aware.

Managing Data Conversion Between a Unicode Server and a Non-Unicode Client

Explains how to preserve character data integrity when server-side data storage is in Unicode, but the client-side application uses a specific code page.

Managing Data Conversion Between Unicode Encoding Schemes

Explains how to preserve character data integrity when both the server and client are Unicode-enabled, but the encoding scheme used to process Unicode on the client differs from the UCS-2 scheme used by SQL Server 2005.