Converting Existing Data into Unicode Format?

Hi Everybody,
We have an application which accepts transactions in local regional languages. The SQL Database is in 7.0 and OS is NT, with all latest SPs. We are planning to move it SQL 2000. During our testing we found, that Crystal Reports 9.0 is not able extract data which is in Korean/Chinese Languages but Crystal Reports 8.0 is working fine.
So we planned to move all existing data in SQL 7.0 to Unicode data format. For New data, we can change the datatypes from varchar to nvarchar.
Existing Sort Order as follows,
Unicode data sorting -- Locale ID =3D 1033
case insensitive, kana type insensitive, width insensitive
Sort Order Description ---
---
--
Character Set =3D 1, iso_1
ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) - Western European 8-bit character set.
Sort Order =3D 52, nocase_iso
Case-insensitive dictionary sort order for use with several We
stern-European languages including English, French, and German
. Uses the ISO 8859-1 character set.
Characters, in Order ---
---
--
! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / : ; < =3D > ? @. [ \ ] ^ _ ` { | }
~ =A1 =A2 =A3 =A4 =A5 =A6 =A7 =A8 =A9 =AA =AB =AC =AD =AE =AF =B0 = =B1 =B2 =B3 =B4 =B5 =B6 =B7 =B8 =B9 =BA =BB =BC =BD =BE
=BF =D7 =F7 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A=3Da =C0=3D=E0 =C1=3D=E1 =C2=3D=E2 = =C3=3D=E3 =C4=3D=E4 =C5=3D=E5 =C6=3D=E6 B=3Db C
=3Dc =C7=3D=E7 D=3Dd E=3De =C8=3D=E8 =C9=3D=E9 =CA=3D=EA =CB=3D=EB = F=3Df G=3Dg H=3Dh I=3Di =CC=3D=EC =CD=3D=ED =CE=3D=EE =CF=3D=EF J
=3Dj K=3Dk L=3Dl M=3Dm N=3Dn =D1=3D=F1 O=3Do =D2=3D=F2 =D3=3D=F3 = =D4=3D=F4 =D5=3D=F5 =D6=3D=F6 =D8=3D=F8 P=3Dp Q=3Dq R=3Dr S
=3Ds =DF T=3Dt U=3Du =D9=3D=F9 =DA=3D=FA =DB=3D=FB =DC=3D=FC V=3Dv = W=3Dw X=3Dx Y=3Dy =DD=3D=FD =FF Z=3Dz =D0=3D=F0 =DE=3D=FE
Can anybody help me, how to convert existing data (Korean/chinese) to the Unicode format in SQL 2000.
tks in advance,
vasumVasum,
Is this the same issue that is posted with the subject "UNICODE" in the
microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming group? If so, see the replies
there.
Thanks,
Bart
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Hi Everybody,
We have an application which accepts transactions in local
regional languages. The SQL Database is in 7.0 and OS is
NT, with all latest SPs. We are planning to move it SQL
2000. During our testing we found, that Crystal Reports
9.0 is not able extract data which is in Korean/Chinese
Languages but Crystal Reports 8.0 is working fine.
So we planned to move all existing data in SQL 7.0 to
Unicode data format. For New data, we can change the
datatypes from varchar to nvarchar.
Existing Sort Order as follows,
Unicode data sorting
--
Locale ID = 1033
case insensitive, kana type insensitive, width insensitive
Sort Order Description
---
---
--
Character Set = 1, iso_1
ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) - Western European 8-bit
character set.
Sort Order = 52, nocase_iso
Case-insensitive dictionary sort order for use with
several We
stern-European languages including English, French,
and German
. Uses the ISO 8859-1 character set.
Characters, in Order
---
---
--
! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > ? @. [ \ ] ^ _
` { | }
~ ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª « ¬ ­ ® ¯ ° ± ² ³ ´ µ ¶ · ¸ ¹ º »
¼ ½ ¾
¿ × ÷ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A=a À=à Á=á Â=â Ã=ã Ä=ä Å=å
Æ=æ B=b C
=c Ç=ç D=d E=e È=è É=é Ê=ê Ë=ë F=f G=g H=h I=i Ì=ì Í=í
Î=î Ï=ï J
=j K=k L=l M=m N=n Ñ=ñ O=o Ò=ò Ó=ó Ô=ô Õ=õ Ö=ö Ø=ø P=p
Q=q R=r S
=s ß T=t U=u Ù=ù Ú=ú Û=û Ü=ü V=v W=w X=x Y=y Ý=ý ÿ Z=z
Ð=ð Þ=þ
Can anybody help me, how to convert existing data
(Korean/chinese) to the Unicode format in SQL 2000.
tks in advance,
vasum