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SQL Server - Multi language data support

Problem: I used CKEditor to edit my pages. Then, I stored the content of the pages to SQL Server 2008 database. The page contents should support in different languages such as English, German and Vietnamese. I met a problem when I worked on Vietnamese pages. The text was successfully saved but it was displayed wrong when reading again from database, likes the following: Input: "Ðây là Tiếng Việt" Display: "Ðây là Ti?ng Vi?t". Solution: We need to use nvarchar (nchar | ntext) data type for strings  and we also need to precede all unicode strings with ' N ' Here is my code: --create table CREATE TABLE [dbo].[xedu_page_content]( [id] [numeric](11, 0) IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [category] [varchar](100) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, [content] [Ntext] NULL ) --save BEGIN TRAN IF not exists (SELECT category FROM xedu_page_content WHERE category='"+in.categoryKey+"') INSERT INTO xedu_page_content(category,content) VALU