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Author Re: adding amharic to SQL
Frans

2006-10-31, 7:12 pm

Hi,

Did you manage to solve the problem?

I am having the same problem, i cant get my database to sort properly.

Frans

"Erland Sommarskog" wrote:

> eyalbengal@gmail.com (eyalbengal@gmail.com@discussions.microsoft.com)
> writes:
>
> Unfortunately, I don't think you have much luck here. You cannot add
> collations to SQL Server.
>
> You can of course store data in Amharic in nvarchar columns, but without
> a good collation you cannot ger proper sorting, proper rules for comparing
> etc. The best choice is probably a binary collation, for instance
> Latin1_General_BIN, but it's a poor substitution.
>
> I also looked of what is available in SQL 2005, but I can't see Ahmaric
> or any related language there.
>
> I would suggest that you drop a mail to sqlwish@microsoft.com so they
> know that there is a need for Amharic and related languages out there.
>
>
> --
> --
> Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
>
> Books Online for SQL Server SP3 at
> http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techin.../2000/books.asp
>
>

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