SQL Command to insert Chinese Letters

Question

I have a database with one column of the type nvarchar. If I write

INSERT INTO table VALUES (\"玄真\") 

It shows ¿¿ in the table. W

Answer 1

First of all, you should to establish the Chinese character encoding on your Database, for example

UTF-8, Chinese_Hong_Kong_Stroke_90_BIN, Chinese_PRC_90_BIN, Chinese_Simplified_Pinyin_100_BIN ... 

I show you an example with SQL Server 2008 (Management Studio) that incorporates all of this Collations, however, you can find the same characters encodings in other Databases (MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, MariaDB...).

1. Create Database with Chinese_PRC_90_BIN, but you can choose other Coallition:

   Select a Page (Left Header) Options > Collation > Choose the Collation

2. Create a Table with the same Collation:

3. Execute the Insert Statement

INSERT INTO ChineseTable VALUES ('玄真');