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[naomi]

what is it Unicode and how to use it?
(for hebrew data in sql)

[wim DC]

I present you the unicode table: Unicode Table

It's a notation for a lot of characters.
'A' = 0041
'B' = 0042
And every character, chinese, greek, latin, hebrew has a value in there.

How to read the table?
Let's take letter K. And you want the unicode value.
K is in row 0040 and in column 0B
To get the unicode value of K, you sum up both: 0040 + 0B = 004B

Hebrew signs start from 0580 in the table.

Now if you want to use these in c# you must use \uCODE

So if you want to display the letter K in a string:

string ok = "O\u004B, it works";
Console.Write(ok);

//output: OK, it works

If you want to display this on a label or anything you must be aware that not all fonts have a character for it and thus may display ??? instead of the correct symbol.
Try "Arial Unicode MS" if you have it.