I have XML data type as a table column. I have stored some XML text inside it. The XML text contains some Hebrew characters, but after I store it in the table, all the Hebrew characters are turned to “?”. What can I do to fix it?
This is my UPDATE statement:
update db_owner.Screen_Template set template_xml =
'<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Screen xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../GUIGenerator_V2/Scheme/GG_Scheme.xsd">
<Legend EntityType="Request">
<Module ForceTabs="1">
<Events>
<Event Value="onafter_moduleinit_beforedraw()" Type="onafter_moduleinit_beforedraw"/>
</Events>
<Section Id="Header" Type="header" Caption="Header" ContainerCSS="background:#C1E0F4;border-bottom:2px groove;margin-bottom:3px;padding:10 3 3 3">
<Containers>
<Form Id="Header" Caption="General Details" Source="Request" Layout="Fixed">
<Layout>
<table cellaspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>
<ControlRef Id="Origin" ShowCaption="1"/>
</td>
<td>
<ControlRef Id="Type" ShowCaption="1"/>
</td>
<td>
<ControlRef Id="Process" ShowCaption="1"/>
</td>
<td width="20" align="center">
<span class="separator"/>
</td>
<td>
<ControlRef Id="FindBy" ShowCaption="1"/>
</td>
<td>
<ControlRef Id="Find"/>
</td>
<td>
<button width="30" onclick="doFindCustomer()">
<Caption Caption="GO"/>
</button>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</Layout>
<Controls>
<Control Id="Origin" Caption="Origin" FieldName="Origin" DataType="string" Width="90" CaptionWidth="70" ReadOnly="1" Mandatory="1" Hidden="1"/>
<Control Id="Type" Caption="Type" FieldName="Type" DataType="select" Width="60" CaptionWidth="40" ReadOnly="1" Mandatory="1" DefaultValue="Service" Hidden="1">
<Member Value="Allert" Caption="Allert"/>
<Member Value="Service" Caption="Service"/>
<Member Value="Marketing" Caption="Marketing"/>
</Control>
<Control Id="Process" Caption="Process" FieldName="Process" DataType="string" Width="90" CaptionWidth="70" ReadOnly="1" Mandatory="1" Hidden="1"/>
<Control Id="FindBy" Caption="Find:" VCaption="Find By" FieldName="FindBy" DataType="select" Width="90" CaptionWidth="50" ReadOnly="0" Mandatory="0" CaptionCSS="font-weight:bold" DefaultValue="IMTSI">
<Member Value="IMTSI" Caption="IMTSI"/>
<Member Value="ID" Caption="ID"/>
</Control>
<Control Id="Find" Caption="Find Value" FieldName="Find" DataType="string" Width="90" CaptionWidth="60" ReadOnly="0" Mandatory="0" CaptionCSS="font-weight:bold"/>
</Controls>
</Form>
</Containers>
</Section>
<Section Id="1" Type="page" Caption="tech visit sms reminder">
<Containers>
<Form Id="General" Caption="General Details" Source="Request" Layout="Fixed">
<Controls>
<Control Id="IMTSI" Caption="IMTSI" Source="Param[@Name = ''IMTSI'']" FieldName="Value" DataType="string" Width="120" CaptionWidth="120" BreakAfter="1" Mandatory="0" Hidden="1"/>
<Control Id="MessageType" Caption="Message Type" Source="Param[@Name = ''MessageType'']" FieldName="Value" DataType="select" Width="150" CaptionWidth="120" ReadOnly="1" Mandatory="1" DefaultValue="Allert" Action="handleMessageTypeChange()" BreakAfter="1">
<Member Value="SMS" Caption="SMS"/>
<Member Value="EMAIL" Caption="EMAIL"/>
<Member Value="ATOS" Caption="ATOS"/>
<Member Value="SELF SERVICE" Caption="SELF SERVICE"/>
</Control>
<Control Id="Language" Caption="Language" Source="Param[@Name = ''Language'']" FieldName="Value" DataType="select" Width="120" CaptionWidth="120" ReadOnly="0" BreakAfter="1" SelectionType="single" Hidden="0" SeparateAfter="1">
<Member Value="heb" Caption="heb"/>
<Member Value="eng" Caption="eng"/>
</Control>
<Control Id="Mobile" Caption="Mobile" Source="Param[@Name = ''Mobile'']" FieldName="Value" DataType="string" Width="120" CaptionWidth="120" BreakAfter="1" Mandatory="1" SeparateAfter="0"/>
<Control Id="FirstName" Caption="First Name" Source="Param[@Name = ''FirstName'']" FieldName="Value" DataType="string" Width="120" BreakAfter="1" CaptionWidth="120" Mandatory="1"/>
<Control Id="Visitday" Caption="Visit day" Source="Param[@Name = ''Visitday'']" FieldName="Value" DataType="select" Width="120" CaptionWidth="120" ReadOnly="0" BreakAfter="1" Mandatory="1" SeparateBefore="1" SeparateAfter="1">
<Member Value="א" Caption="ראשון"/>
<Member Value="ב" Caption="שני"/>
<Member Value="ג" Caption="שלישי"/>
<Member Value="ד" Caption="רביעי"/>
<Member Value="ה" Caption="חמישי"/>
</Control>
<Control Id="Date" Caption="Visit date" Source="Param[@Name = ''Date'']" FieldName="Value" DataType="date" EnableTime="0" Width="120" CaptionWidth="120" Height="60" BreakAfter="1" MaxLen="20" Mandatory="1" SeparateBefore="1" SeparateAfter="1"/>
<Control Id="Visithours" Caption="Visit hours" Source="Param[@Name = ''Visithours'']" FieldName="Value" DataType="string" EnableTime="1" Width="120" CaptionWidth="120" Height="60" BreakAfter="1" MaxLen="20" Mandatory="1" SeparateBefore="1" SeparateAfter="1"/>
<Control Id="Email" Caption="Email" Source="Param[@Name = ''Email'']" FieldName="Value" DataType="string" Width="350" CaptionWidth="120" BreakAfter="1" Mandatory="0" Hidden="1"/>
<Control Id="Subject" Caption="Subject" Source="Param[@Name = ''Subject'']" FieldName="Value" DataType="string" Width="350" CaptionWidth="120" BreakAfter="1" MaxLen="40" Hidden="1"/>
<Control Id="Sender" Caption="Sender" Source="Param[@Name = ''Sender'']" FieldName="Value" DataType="string" Width="350" CaptionWidth="120" ReadOnly="1" BreakAfter="1"/>
<Control Id="Priority" Caption="Priority" Source="Param[@Name = ''Priority'']" FieldName="Value" DataType="select" Width="350" CaptionWidth="120" BreakAfter="1" DefaultValue="LOW" Hidden="1">
<Member Value="LOW" Caption="Low" Glyf="../../GUIGenerator_V2/assets/themes/Images/flag_blue.png"/>
<Member Value="MED" Caption="Medium" Glyf="../../GUIGenerator_V2/assets/themes/Images/flag_yellow.png"/>
<Member Value="HIGH" Caption="High" Glyf="../../GUIGenerator_V2/assets/themes/Images/flag_red.png"/>
</Control>
</Controls>
</Form>
</Containers>
</Section>
</Module>
<DefaultData>
<Request Origin="ISRAEL" Type="Service" Process="17">
<Param Name="MessageType" Type="Field" Value="SMS"/>
<Param Name="FirstName" Type="Field"/>
<Param Name="Visitday" Type="Field"/>
<Param Name="Date" Type="Field"/>
<Param Name="Visithours" Type="Field"/>
<Param Name="Mobile" Type="Field"/>
<Param Name="Sender" Type="Field" Value="BTP|*5755"/>
<Param Name="Priority" Type="Field" Value="LOW"/>
<Param Name="Language" Type="Field" Value="heb"/>
</Request>
</DefaultData>
</Legend>
<Data/>
</Screen>'
where UID like '4'
and the SELECT statement:
SELECT * FROM Screen_Template WHERE env LIKE '" + env + "' AND OpCo LIKE '" + opco + "' AND UID LIKE '" + uid + "'"
The
xmldata type has full support for Unicode and will not convert letters to question marks. Something else is going on. It could be one of the following reasons.INSERTpart of your client app is corrupting the source data into a single-byte character set (e.g using varchar instead of nvarchar).SELECTpart of your client app is corrupting the table data into a single-byte character set (e.g using varchar instead of nvarchar).Update based on poster’s new code sample:
Your INSERT statement is corrupting Unicode text by using single-byte string constants e.g. ‘text’ instead of Unicode constants e.g. N’some text’. You need to prefix all string literals with a capital N to ensure uNicode is used.