Cfqueryparam and non-English languages

Question

Hi,
I want to store non-English characters in NCHAR NVARCHAR and
NTEXT field types.
In the examples below fields LastName and FirstName are
NVARCHAR type and
Comments is NTEXT
In the past when I wanted to store non English (Greek)
strings or texts in these field types I was writting
<!-------------->
<cfquery name="Q" datasource="Db">
INSERT INTO Books
( LastName,
FirstName,
Comments )
VALUES
( N '#var_LastName#' ,
N '#var_FirstName#' ,
N '#var_Comments#' )
</cfquery>
<!-------------->
Now I want to use the cfqueryparam, so the syntax is
<!-------------->
<cfquery name="Q" datasource="Db">
INSERT INTO Books
( LastName,
FirstName,
Comments )
VALUES
( <cfqueryparam value="#var_LastName#"
cfsqltype="CF_SQL_VARCHAR" MaxLength="40">,
<cfqueryparam value="#var_FirstName#"
cfsqltype="CF_SQL_VARCHAR" MaxLength="30">,
<cfqueryparam value="#var_Comments#"
cfsqltype="CF_SQL_LONGVARCHAR"> )
</cfquery>
<!-------------->
but ...... the non English characters are not stored
correctly.
So my question is
How can I use the cfqueryparam in order to store non English
characters in NCHAR NVARCHAR and NTEXT field types ???
The documentation has not any info on that.
Thank you in advance for your help
ANX
Greece

Answer 1

You didn't say what version of CF you were using.
Also, which database driver are you using (ODBC or JDBC
version #)?
Anyway, it looks like you do not have the unicode support
turned on. See
http://www.sustainablegis.com/blog/cfg11n/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=F9553D86-20ED-7DEE-2A 913AFD8651643F,
etc.
If that doesn't help, post
sample data that inserts ok without cfparam but not ok with
cfparam.