Re: Sql server to xml string with encoding

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From: Per Bolmstedt (per.bolmstedt_at_framINGENrEKLAMtACKfab.se)
Date: 06/22/04 

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:44:59 +0200

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <skeet@pobox.com> wrote:

> It doesn't matter how the data is stored in the database - by the
> time it's been fetched from the database, it's just Unicode text,
> assuming you've got it in text fields in the database.

But to convert the database text to Unicode, either the reader or the
database must know how the database data is formatted, right?

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