Question

Everything was working fine while the database of my asp.net mvc 2 site was in the app_data folder, after I transfered it to sqlserver express all the Cyrillic data I added after that appears in ?????

I’m using nvarchar for my fields and collation is set to Cyrillic and yet I get ?????…

Any suggestions are appreciated

[HttpPost]
    public ActionResult AddCity(CityInfo cityInfo)
        {
            try
            {
                // TODO: Add insert logic here
                if (ModelState.IsValid)
                {
                    var dbM = new moonDB2();

                    dbM.CityInfoes.AddObject(cityInfo);
                    dbM.SaveChanges();
                    return RedirectToAction("Index");
                }
                else
                {

                    return View(cityInfo);
                }
            }
            catch
            {

                return View();
            }
        }

Answer 1

I’m using nvarchar for my fields and
encoding is set to Cyrillic

Irrelevant. NVarchar is unicode – so the encoding is not relevant. Encoding is relevant for varchar (coding page) only.

• Validate it is the database, not the asp.net area
• Are you ENCODING the letters in ASP.NET? What is your server side asp.net locale?

I am more likely to believe you f***** up the string handing in the ASP.NET side, or run thecode somewhere through a CHAR / VARCHAR columns. NVARCHAR handles cyrillic fine.