I need to know whether Windows Server 2016 ( OS ) and MSSQL 2016 (database) support GB18030 standard for Chinese character set.

[Shalini B]

Are there any settings to be done explicitly to get the support for GB18030? How to confirm that Chinese char set ( with UTF-8 ) is supported and readable by SQL server 2016 database?


Because without utf-8 support on MSSQL DB Collation set to Chinese_Hong_Kong_Stroke_90_CI_AS, its failing as below:

"Could not find a Java charset equivalent to collation 040CD01000." How to resolve this error?




PLATFORM / CONFIGURATION:

Windows Server 2016 / MSSQL 2016

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