My SQL Server 2008 R2 database has string columns (nvarchar). And some of the old data is showing Ascii. I need to show it to the user in my site and I prefer to convert the data in the database to Unicode. Is there a quick way to do this? are there downsides that I should be aware of?
Examples to my issue:
In the database, I see special chars instead of regulars chars. I have a name of a user which is supposed to be
Amédée, and instead it showsAm?d??.In other cases I see
"instead of Quotation mark ("), or the chars&#instead of the word "and".