Positively SQL » tips http://blog.sqlpositive.com SQL blog by Luke Jian Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:30:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Using CONVERT with COLLATE to strip accents from Unicode strings http://blog.sqlpositive.com/2010/03/using-convert-with-collate-to-strip-accents-from-unicode-strings/ http://blog.sqlpositive.com/2010/03/using-convert-with-collate-to-strip-accents-from-unicode-strings/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:31:22 +0000 Luke http://blog.sqlpositive.com/?p=74 Today Mladen Prajdic  posted a on Twitter a SQL statement that captured my attention: (http://twitter.com/MladenPrajdic/status/9878219727)

SELECT CONVERT(varchar(50), N'æøåáäĺćçčéđńőöřůýţžš') COLLATE Cyrillic_General_CI_AI returns aoaaalcccednooruytzs

If you notice the conversion to Cyrillic_General_CI_AI collation his shows an interesting mechanism for code page translation that we could not explain:

Why does Cyrillic_General_CI_AI or   Greek_CI_AI collation successfully convert accents to their base ascii [...]]]> http://blog.sqlpositive.com/2010/03/using-convert-with-collate-to-strip-accents-from-unicode-strings/feed/ 2