
The hexadecimal digits hhh used in the hhh code. Table of UNICODE codes, for Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Scandinavian and some other Central European Languages. O UNICODE (2 bytes, also called special characters) like Swedish alphabet - ASCII and Extended ASCII (Å Ä Ö ) - varchar DECLARE varchar(32) = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZÅÄÖ' On the other hand to represent the Japanese or Chinese letters, you need UNICODE nvarchar. Yet, that does not change the fact thatġ byte (varchar) is sufficient to represent the Latin alphabet. You can also move it to 5 bytes, pad it with zeros and call it something else. If you move ASCII A into 2 bytes, it is still ASCII A in UNICODE representation. I am afraid Erland you made up your own definition.
