Google failed to give a definitive answer. So here goes Mr Stackoverflow…
Which charsets does varchar support in MSSQL?
i.e. ASCIII, UTF-8 etc…
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In the
varchardata type characters are stored as eight bit values, and the character set is determined by the collation that you choose for the field (or default for the database).For example, the collation
Latin1_General_CS_ASuses the Latin1 character set, and sorting and comparing is case sensitive and accent sensitive.