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Asked: 2026-05-12T19:23:37+00:00

I’ve got some problems on a .NET site where both Latin (åäö) and Latvian

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I’ve got some problems on a .NET site where both Latin (åäö) and Latvian (āē) characters would need to co-exist. In the database, I’m using nvarchar and ntext for my fields, and if I enter the texts directly into the database, everything works fine.

The problem is when I enter the exact same text using a form that does an SQL UPDATE, the Latvian chars get converted to similar Latin chars, so the string “åäöāē” would be saved as “åäöae”.

I’ve tried a bit with different CodePages, but I’m not yet getting the results I want. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Is your SQL statement passing the value in to the db as a unicode value?

    e.g. basic example

    INSERT YourTable VALUES ('Unicode Value')

    should be:

    INSERT YourTable VALUES (N'Unicode Value')

    Obviously I’d recommend you use parameterised SQL/stored procedure and define the parameter as an NVARCHAR, but you get what I’m saying.

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