SQL Server：选择排序规则

Question

I have an SQL Server database and I'm trying to choose the appropriate collation.

Right now, the default one is selected: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS. However, this is not enough - I need to include both latin (including Č, Ć, Š...) and cyrillic characters (Ш, Ж...). Is there a character set that encompases all of these, or better, a way to enable UTF8 as collation?

Answer 1

You're using the SQL collations. UTF-8 is supported under the windows collations.

Ie in your example SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS is a SQL collation, with Latin1_General_100_CI_AS being compareable. But if you look at these set of collations. There's also ones with UTF8.

For example, there's Latin1_General_100_CI_AS_KS_WS_SC_UTF8

Which is:

• Case Insensitive
• Accent Sensitive
• Kana Sensitive
• Width Sensitive
• Supplementary Character support
• Has UTF8 support

UTF8 is not present in SQL only collations. And depending on your actual Server instance version, might not be available either.

Msdn links:

• Collations
• UTF8