Escaping international (unicode) characters in string

Y'all:

I am needing some way, in the SQL Server dialect of SQL, to escape unicode
code points that are embedded within an nvarchar string in a SQL script,
e.g. in Java I can do:

String str = "This is a\u1245 test.";

in Oracle's SQL dialect, it appears that I can accomplish the same thing:

INSERT INTO TEST_TABLE (TEST_COLUMN) VALUES ('This is a\1245 test.");

I've googled and researched through the MSDN, and haven't discovered a
similar construct in SQL Server. I am already aware of the UNISTR()
function, and the NCHAR() function, but those aren't going to work well if
there are more than a few international characters embedded within a
string.

Does anyone have a better suggestion?

Thanks muchly!
GRB

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I am needing some way, in the SQL Server dialect of SQL, to escape unicode
code points that are embedded within an nvarchar string in a SQL script,
e.g. in Java I can do:
>
String str = "This is a\u1245 test.";

SELECT @.str = 'This is a' + nchar(1245) + ' test'

Note here that 1245 is decimal. If you want to use hex code (which you
normally do with Unicode), you would do:

SELECT @.str = 'This is a' + nchar(0x1245) + ' test'

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Originally Posted by

Greg R. Broderick (usenet200705@.blackholio.dyndns.org) writes:

Quote:

Originally Posted by

>I am needing some way, in the SQL Server dialect of SQL, to escape
>unicode code points that are embedded within an nvarchar string in a
>SQL script, e.g. in Java I can do:
>>
>String str = "This is a\u1245 test.";

>
SELECT @.str = 'This is a' + nchar(1245) + ' test'
>
Note here that 1245 is decimal. If you want to use hex code (which you
normally do with Unicode), you would do:
>
SELECT @.str = 'This is a' + nchar(0x1245) + ' test'

When there are more than one or two non-US-ASCII characters in the string,
this quickly becomes impractically unwieldy, thus my comment in my original
posting:

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I am already aware of the UNISTR() function, and the NCHAR() function, but
those aren't going to work well if there are more than a few international
characters embedded within a string.

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Thanks anyway, though. :-)

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When there are more than one or two non-US-ASCII characters in the
string, this quickly becomes impractically unwieldy, thus my comment in
my original posting:

If the are in sequence, you could do:

convert(nvarchar, 0x34123512...)

although this is certainly not too funny as you have twitch the bytes
around.

Another solution to use something like Microsoft Visual Keyboard, and
simply put the actual characters there.

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