HELP HELP varchar

I have a field type of "varchar"

It can not accept to Store Arabic Characters!!! plus i can't change it into ntext or nvarchar my system which goin to export the data into SQL server by suing insert command will hang. so im stucked with varchar!!!

here some sample of my data stored currently in My SQL SERVER 2000

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Plzzzz help me if there any other way to do it

Do you have the right collation set in your database?

Have a look in BOL (Books on Line) at COLLATE - there's a lot of info in there about how to deal with charachters from different languages and alphabets.

/Kenneth

|||If you want to store arabic characters you will have to change your column data types to nvarchar. So you will have to investigate the problem you are describing while using the nvarchar column. What is the actual problem here ? I am not sure / doubt that this is related to collation problems, but further investigation might help us to solve the problem.

HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer.

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