Why is sql server storing question mark characters instead of Japanese characters in NVarchar fields?

Question

I\'m trying to store Japanese characters in nvarchar fields in my SQL Server 2000 database.

When I run an update statement like:

update blah 
set add         


        

Answer 1

SSMS will not display that correctly, you might see question marks or boxes

paste the results into word and they should be in Japanese

In the webpage you need to set the Content-Type, the code below will display Chinese Big5

To verify the data you can't use ascii since ascii only can see the ascii character set

run this

select unicode(address),ascii(address) from blah where key_ID = 1

Output should be the following (it only looks at the first character) 12473 63