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		kstrauser 18 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C# strings silently kill your SQL Server indexes i... Those are all single byte characters in UTF-8.

SigmundA 18 days ago | [–]

We are talking nvarchar here, yes UTF-8 solves this issue completely and MSSQL supports it now days with varchar.

croes 18 days ago | | [–]

But nvarchar is UTF-16

simonask 18 days ago | [–]

No. Look closer.

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