HTML Symbols are being displayed as a question mark in SQL Server Database

Question

Today i noticed that html symbols such as: ★ are being displayed in my database as a question mark.

I\'m using varchar as type and the database i am using is micros

Answer 1

insert into tablename values (N'★ ') 

above is the syntax for inserting and make sure your field data type is nvarchar or try this test example

create table test (abc nvarchar)
insert into test values (N'★ ')
 select * from test