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• 05-01-2008, 10:43 PM

  tyronewillingham Joined on 04-28-2008, 9:38 PM Posts 5

  International Characters getting garbled between log parser and MSSql 2005 Reply Contact We have a mature solution in place using LogParser to read Exchange log files into out MSSql database.  Today, one of our clients alerted us to a problem they were having with french characters.  Specifically, "Héllo" read from the W3C formatted Exchange log file, turns into "héllo" in the SQL database. Our solution is an asp file written in VBScript The input format is W3C The output format is SQL The column in the table was originally a varchar(8000).  I have since changed it to an nvarchar(4000) The column in the table has Collation = "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS" I have manually set the iCodepage and oCodepage to 1252. I have tested the database, and I'm able to manually insert the "Héllo" directly from the log file. I set the output format to W3C and got the correct output.  I have not tried other output types. I've run out of roads to go down at this point.  Any thoughts? Thanks in advance

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• 05-06-2008, 6:27 PM

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  tyronewillingham Joined on 04-28-2008, 9:38 PM Posts 5	Re: International Characters getting garbled between log parser and MSSql 2005 Reply Contact After much tinkering, we determined that the exchange log files were being stored in UTF-8 format. By setting the input object's iCodepage to 65001 (UTF-8), the accented characters were correctly entered into the database. Hopefully this will answer someone else's question