Issue with Greek,Russian character set in SQL Server

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Hello ,

I have a Database instance with collation as 'SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS' in SQL server 2008.One table conatins data in greek character set for e.g.
Πριγκηποννήσου
Κομνηνών
Komninon
Διαγόρα
Diagora
Καλλιόπης
Kalliopis
Πάροδος Νίκαιας
Parodos Nikaias

Which also give me a problem while searching in sql server. for e.g. select * from tablename where txt like '%μν%'

Also in other sql operation it gives issue.
Same issue with Russian language.

Do SQL Server 2008 required specific settings for Greek, Russian languages??

Please suggest some thoughts on the same.

Thanks,
Sachin

Posted 27-Dec-12 0:25am

cancerion

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Aarti Meswania · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-27T01:32:00

Solution 1

your column type should be nvarchar

and then

search will work this way...

SQL

select * from tablename where txt like   N'%μν%'

Happy Coding!
:)

Posted 27-Dec-12 1:32am

Aarti Meswania

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cancerion 28-Dec-12 4:18am

Thanks Aarti

Aarti Meswania 28-Dec-12 4:19am

Welcome :)
Glad to help you! :)

cancerion 28-Dec-12 6:51am

Hi,
Now As my data is stored in NVarchar type column and i can search using N'%μν%'.
Is there any way to convert greek/russian character set to UTF-8 or Simple English character set?

Thanks,
Sachin

Aarti Meswania 28-Dec-12 6:56am

no sql will not provide such way
have you tried google translator?
it will allow to convert xls files also
so, you can get data in xls & then translate full data
then import that data in sql

Note font of language must be same to google-translator's language font else it will do false conversation